Article 149587 of comp.os.vms:
In a message of 18 Jun 1996 11:00:09 -0700, received on 18 Jun 1996, 20:24
Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com wrote to Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com

>For what it's worth, I threw together a "DIRBYDATE" utility a few years
>ago, that lists files in reverse order of creation date (i.e., newest-to-
>oldest).  It's kind of crufty and has a number of serious restrictions (for 
>instance, it will fail if ANY file in the target directory is "locked by 
>another user"), but has been posted here in the past and has been modified 
>somewhat (I'm told; I don't believe I received copies) by other readers/
>participants of this list/group.  It's just barely possible that DIRBYDATE
>might be available somewhere for FTP.  Try searching (archie, gopher, Web
>search-engine, etc.) for "DIRBYDATE".  If all else fails, I could be
>persuaded to repost (or e-mail you) a copy, but keep in mind that that
>could take MONTHS or YEARS> :-)
>

For what it's worth I just zipped up my copy I received in 1991 from
Chris and put it up for {f,ht}tp:

	http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/ftp/michael/dirbydate.zip
	ftp://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/pub/michael/dirbydate.zip

Michael

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Michael Lemke
Sternwarte Bamberg, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
(michael@io.as.utexas.edu or ai26@a400.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de)