Is findfirst/findnext deterministic? (same order each time)?

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From: Eric A. Raymond
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 02:04

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Are the DOS findfirst/findnext directory functions deterministic.
That is, will they report the files in the same order for a given
disk?

A related question, is the order the files are retrieved based upon
creation order?  That is, if I create files a, b, c in that order,

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