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From: Eric.Martinson@busker.FIDONET.ORG (Eric Martinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Utility to sort directories on a Network server
Message-ID: <559.245206A1@busker.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 20 Apr 89 03:54:01 GMT
Organization: Busker's Boneyard; Portland, OR (503)771-4773
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Novell is a multi-tasking software package that has alot more to worry 
about then the order of the directory entries.  It's server directory
structure is not even remotely related to DOS.  The actually directory 
structure is much more closely related to UNIX's inode structure.  Why 
not let the server manage files and let your application software sort 
the files before displaying them.  The caching scheme employed by 
Advanced Netware will not gain any performance improvements from a 
reorganized directory structure.  Try obtaining a copy of a dos version 
of LS.EXE or write a batch file and call it SDIR.BAT:
 
dir | sort
 
In case you are wondering, I manage the engineering portion of a Novell 
Netware network with 9 servers (each with 2 140MB disks) and 150+ 
workstations. 
 
Remember, applications determine what you see not the operating system.



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