Hi Mike

>Also, FWIW, I checked further and found that ADIR() and a DOS dir command gave the files in the same order. Perhaps the ADIR() does give the files in their physical order.

What is the DOS order, the short file names or long file names. I am a bit confused as sorting on SFNs (esp. with files having similar name thus SFNs will have ~1 ~2 ~3, etc.) but the LFNs maybe quite different 6 chars down.

I hope I am not going in circles.