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*ProteanThread*
http://www.jetman.dircon.co.uk/software/foldersort.html
Some programs need to have files in a particular order within a
directory. However, Explorer always shows you a sorted view which will
usually bear no relation to the actual sort order of the folder
concerned (use a DOS box to do a DIR in the folder and see the
difference - providing you haven't used the DIRCMD environment variable
to make DIR use a sorted listing). Even when you have files physically
sorted in a folder, a simple operation like renaming a file can
actually change this order (again, try a DOS DIR before and after a
renaming operation). This utility will sort files in one of four ways -
by name, by name (reversed order), by extension or by extension
(reversed order). Plenty of utilities to do this existed for DOS/Win3.1
but with the rise of long filenames and 32-bit FATs these utilities
have become useless - and a quick search for Win95 versions found there
to be only a few such utilities which were all shareware. Considering
how much effort is needed to write such a utility, I think that's
daylight robbery, so here we are - a freeware one.
Some programs need to have files in a particular order within a
directory. However, Explorer always shows you a sorted view which will
usually bear no relation to the actual sort order of the folder
concerned (use a DOS box to do a DIR in the folder and see the
difference - providing you haven't used the DIRCMD environment variable
to make DIR use a sorted listing). Even when you have files physically
sorted in a folder, a simple operation like renaming a file can
actually change this order (again, try a DOS DIR before and after a
renaming operation). This utility will sort files in one of four ways -
by name, by name (reversed order), by extension or by extension
(reversed order). Plenty of utilities to do this existed for DOS/Win3.1
but with the rise of long filenames and 32-bit FATs these utilities
have become useless - and a quick search for Win95 versions found there
to be only a few such utilities which were all shareware. Considering
how much effort is needed to write such a utility, I think that's
daylight robbery, so here we are - a freeware one.