>>Hi Terry, this behaviour has only just started - I have VFP on several machines and they all default to "List" and are sorted by the "Name" column which is what I'm used to - any idea how I can change the rogue PC ? thanks
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Re: Getfile() gives non-alphabetical listing Thread #
515439Found it, and it leads to
Q233526. Now it's only a matter of applying those W9x things to today's Windowses. But if the bug is so old, they probably didn't change the code which causes it, so there's a chance it may work today.