[ALLY] VID File Requestor 1.0 Re:(3)
From: larry:ecotope at: 21-Sep-2000 9:21
Hi Carl
You wrote:
> Yes, the dirs could use a sort as well. Do they currently appear in
non-alpha order on Windows?
Yes, as I noted previously, the default order used by the operating system
is "create date" and this appears to be the order in which the C-code
underlying REBOL returns files and dirs. In Windows Explorer, files and
sub-dirs are sorted lexicographically (dirs first, weird chars first). That
is they are not displayed in their "natural" order.
Currently
>>size? some-dir
returns the number of files in the directory, and
>>modified? some-dir
returns the creation date. So it would make sense to have sorting on these
attributes as well.
-Larry
PS I read most of the code for file-req.r last night and continue to be
amazed at the power of dialecting, especially VID.
