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19 July 2002, 01:37 PM
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Can anyone recommend a DOS/Windows utility to change the *physical* order of subdirectories & files into alphabetical order?
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19 July 2002, 02:21 PM
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Dir /On
LMFAO @ myself
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19 July 2002, 02:36 PM
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Not LMFAO ;-)
I want to *change* the order rather than just sort it when I pull a DIR listing.
19 July 2002, 02:50 PM
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What's the point? Write a batch file if it bothers you. You'd need the source to command.com anyway since dir is an internal command.
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19 July 2002, 02:54 PM
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you cant actually do it it dont think.
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19 July 2002, 02:57 PM
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Oooh bugger. We're working on a device (non PC) that displays files in their physical order on the drive so we need a utility to get them well sorted on the drive.
19 July 2002, 02:59 PM
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3pm ?
burn them in a different order??
19 July 2002, 03:01 PM
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looks like that will have to be the way. Better dig out Norton Commander.
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19 July 2002, 03:09 PM
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19 July 2002, 03:17 PM
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19 July 2002, 03:43 PM
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Norton's Speedisk defragger used to be able to do this
19 July 2002, 05:05 PM
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If the device has DOS on it then you could try running a DEFRAG with the sort parameters:-
/SN Old sort by Name
/SE Old sort by Extension
/SD Old sort by Date
/SS Old sort by Size
/H Defrag hidden files
I would try sorting by extension first (that usually sorts Directories first under NT).
Then try by name.
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