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- From: redmax@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (Massimo_Alessan Santin 197369/IL)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Directory Sort (like Norton's) for OS/2 HPFS?
- Keywords: directory sort norton os/2 hpfs
- Message-ID: <BuJGyK.KCI@dei.unipd.it>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 22:54:20 GMT
- References: <p6snf9=.jeffgus@netcom.com> <1992Sep10.175844.12909@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- Organization: D.E.I. Universita' di Padova, Italia
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- In article <1992Sep10.175844.12909@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <p6snf9=.jeffgus@netcom.com> jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson) writes:
- >>
- >> Does anyone know if a Norton like directory sort program exit
- >>for OS/2 HPFS? I like being able to put files the way I want them
- >>(not just sort switches), but I can't currently do this under HPFS.
- >
- >Of course, if you want a custom (not sorted) listing, it could cause a
- >problem. I know of no such utility to do this for HPFS.
- >
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- HPFS is based on B-Trees. The files names are sorted because they are
- into the B-Tree node. They are like the keys of an index file into a
- database. I think that isn't possible to use an arbitrary order on
- them.
-
- Massimo A. Santin
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