OpenEuphoria

Re: "." and ".." returned by dir()

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Sep 02, 2006
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Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:59:51 -0700, "Ricardo M. Forno"
> <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
> 
> >I don't know for shure, but methinks that DOS returns the files and the
> >directories ordered by date.
> >If this is always true, it might be that you have some files dated earlier
> >than the directories where they reside, so this may not be always true.
> >This can happen if you create a directory and then you move some files to it.
> A quick test showed that false (on win98).
> Another quick test I tried kinda proved my theory:
>   I created a.txt
>   I created b.txt
>   I deleted a.txt
>   I created c.txt
> dir() now lists c before b. 


Now wait a minuet.

I thought files were arranged by the order last selected by View/Arrange
Icons/(name, date etc...) for that window.

If this is not true I'd like to know what is?


Don Cole