Returning Versions in directoryfiles on vms

Question

Hi Forte Wizards
Again I'm troubled by something that I'm sure is just plain manual stuff, I just can't seem to
find the correct page to read...
SO:
How do I persuade a directoryfile's listfiles to return all versions of a given file on VMS?
It seems to only recognize the name and not the versions...
may the forte be with you
Jens Chr /KAD Denmark
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Answer 1

Hi
using your suffix I get the list of all the files - fine, now all I need i the FULL vms
file name to be able to open them.
your way of creating the versionno's could be expanded by checking for the existence
of the file with each of the versionno's in the directory.... I will go for that if noone suggests a
cleaner solution (The directory listing is on a remote node w/o forte, so each lookup involves
some network traffic (read: delay)).
thank you for your answer
jens chr/KAD Denmark
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Grace <[email protected]>
To: JCJJ <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: 23. juni 1999 02:10
Subject: Re: Returning Versions in directoryfiles on vms
Hi,
If you pass listfiles the suffix parameter of '*;*' it will return all
versions of all files - the ;* can be tagged after whatever suffix you want
to return all versions of files with that suffix.
However, once it has returned the files determining their version is a
problem and I would be interested to hear what others have to say on this -
we use this rather crude method to display the files;
For all identical filenames in the listfiles array assume the first
occurrence is version ;0 and concat this to the filename for display in an
array of textdata. For each subsequent occurrence subtract 1 from the
version number and so on - so we can at least list our files thus
TEMP.DAT;0
TEMP.DAT;-1
enabling us to distinguish between without knowing their true version number.
Hope this helps
Andy
At 11:47 PM 6/22/99 +0200, you wrote:
Hi Forte Wizards
Again I'm troubled by something that I'm sure is just plain manual stuff,I just can't seem to
find the correct page to read...
SO:
How do I persuade a directoryfile's listfiles to return all versions of agiven file on VMS?
It seems to only recognize the name and not the versions...
may the forte be with you
Jens Chr /KAD Denmark
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