| From: | Tim Seifert |
| Date: | 9 Sep 2001 at 06:00:23 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: Dopus Listers. |
_Replying to a message_
By: Ted Cotton <ted.cotton@xtra.co.nz>
To: dopus5@lss.com.au <dopus5@lss.com.au>
On: Sunday, September 09, 2001, 4:30:32 AM
Re: [D5] Re: Dopus Listers.
Hi Ted,
TS>> Well, a common way to sort things into date order is to write the
TS>> dates numerically, most significant digits first.
TS>>
TS>> e.g. 2001-12-25
TC> Yes, Tim this looks better to me and to my way of thinking also presents
TC> a valid reason for having figures before the file name in the lister as
TC> compared with: A.Jan.TCD
TC> B.Feb.TCD
TC> C.Mar.TCD (These are files in my TurboCalc cash-book).
TC>
TC> I have set up my months thus: 2001 01 00 Jan.TCD
TC> 2001 02 00 Feb.TCD
TC> 2001 03 00 Mar.TCD
I tend to prefer month names, than numbers, but there's no reason you
can't do both, as you have; so long as there's enough characters before
it, to get the directories sorted in order.
TC> It seems to work okay without the hyphen between the YMD figures in
TC> both Dopus and the requesters of other programmes I'm using.
Various systems use hyphens or underlines differently (sorting them at the
top, or the bottom), you could try alternatives. Spaces in file paths can
cause problems, it depends on what software you're using.
(I'm dropping an ISP soon, don't send mail to bigpond.com addresses.)
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