>>>>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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>>>Check also Re: Getfile() gives non-alphabetical listing Thread #515439
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>>Found 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.
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>Check the Russian thread as well, they somehow applied something similar.
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>BTW, how did you find it? I stopped when I saw David's link pointing to nowhere, though I only had few minutes (seconds) to check...

I've fiddled with my UT settings recently, so I found that you can have a Message ID textbox on the dashboard - just paste the message number and there you go. The link to the message there was probably some old format, from the times when UT was running VFP5 maybe, but it was fairly easy to extract the message ID from it.