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

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From: Phil Howard
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 07:18

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raymond@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond) writes:

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

Not unless the files are on there in exactly the same order.  You get
the files in the order they are in the directory data blocks themselves.
I am working on a program where I want the files in a more deterministic
way, and I sort them myself.
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