timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn) (04/13/89)
I'm looking for a package to sort a directory that's located on the server of a Novell network, similar to the norton utilities "ds" program. I'm running an Advanced Netware 286 v 2.0A. The norton utilities don't do it (at least v 4.00 won't) and everybody I've talked to says it can't be done. Anybody out there care to prove them wrong for me? Thanks in advance for any and all assistance. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Timothy D. Kuehn timk@egvideo | |TDK Consulting Services !watmath!egvideo!timk | |871 Victoria St. North, Suite 217A | |Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2B 3S4 (519)-741-3623 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Eric.Martinson@busker.FIDONET.ORG (Eric Martinson) (04/20/89)
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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