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Hi!
Amazing how long I've been using Windows XP without noticing the strange
ordering that it applies when you choose file sorting "by name" in Windows
Explorer... Instead of sorting character by character (so that
561<56k<571<5a1) it seems to recognise numbers composed of multiple digits,
so that 5a1<56k<57k<561<571 (just because 5 is less than 56 is less than 571).
Can anyone please tell me how to turn back to normal intuitive/ascii
character table alphabetic ordering? This has to be possible to do somewhere.
If not, I get really angry on the microsoft ppl...
I know they do it because sometimes you want 1<2<10<20 etc. But everybody
who really wants that can always add zeroes to get 01<02<10<20, THAT'S HOW
PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS DONE IN THE COMPUTER WORLD. This is really typical of the
microsoft mentality, inventing new things that are not only complicated but
also unwanted and then expect you to be grateful for it.
This is of no good at all - and as explained, totally unnecessary since one
could always add the zeroes in front. (It should also be slightly more
demanding of the computer if it has to recognise long numbers instead of just
comparing characters, of course a minor issue with today's computers, but yet
moer evidence of microsoft's part in the "programming crisis")
For me this ordering is disastrous since in my work I name some experiment
result files starting with a three-character shorthand notation of the date
the experiment was conducted. Thus, 561=1 June 2005, 571=1 July 2005, 56k=20
June 2005 and 5a1=1 October 2005. Normal, intuitive file name sorting would
thus yield correct chronological ordering of the files.
Also I was surprised at first to find that after data treatment, the file,
say, "result12" which was the average of "result1" and "result2" did not
position itself between result1 and result2 but came after result3.
I'm sure there are lots of better examples yet, because this is so totally
unbelievably weird!!!
Please someone tell me there is a checkbox -somewhere- (I have not found
that place yet) saying something like "turn off multiple character number
recognition in alphabetical file sorting"!
Amazing how long I've been using Windows XP without noticing the strange
ordering that it applies when you choose file sorting "by name" in Windows
Explorer... Instead of sorting character by character (so that
561<56k<571<5a1) it seems to recognise numbers composed of multiple digits,
so that 5a1<56k<57k<561<571 (just because 5 is less than 56 is less than 571).
Can anyone please tell me how to turn back to normal intuitive/ascii
character table alphabetic ordering? This has to be possible to do somewhere.
If not, I get really angry on the microsoft ppl...
I know they do it because sometimes you want 1<2<10<20 etc. But everybody
who really wants that can always add zeroes to get 01<02<10<20, THAT'S HOW
PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS DONE IN THE COMPUTER WORLD. This is really typical of the
microsoft mentality, inventing new things that are not only complicated but
also unwanted and then expect you to be grateful for it.
This is of no good at all - and as explained, totally unnecessary since one
could always add the zeroes in front. (It should also be slightly more
demanding of the computer if it has to recognise long numbers instead of just
comparing characters, of course a minor issue with today's computers, but yet
moer evidence of microsoft's part in the "programming crisis")
For me this ordering is disastrous since in my work I name some experiment
result files starting with a three-character shorthand notation of the date
the experiment was conducted. Thus, 561=1 June 2005, 571=1 July 2005, 56k=20
June 2005 and 5a1=1 October 2005. Normal, intuitive file name sorting would
thus yield correct chronological ordering of the files.
Also I was surprised at first to find that after data treatment, the file,
say, "result12" which was the average of "result1" and "result2" did not
position itself between result1 and result2 but came after result3.
I'm sure there are lots of better examples yet, because this is so totally
unbelievably weird!!!
Please someone tell me there is a checkbox -somewhere- (I have not found
that place yet) saying something like "turn off multiple character number
recognition in alphabetical file sorting"!