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order of files on FAT filesystem

Once, a long time ago, back in the days of my trusty 286, I saw this file order utiltiy that would re-arrange the order files appeared in a directory. Normally, back then before the PROMPT environment variable, files were not sorted or ordered in any way... the DIR command spit out the files in which they appeared in the filesystem, which was usually simply the order in which they were placed into that directory.. first file in shows first, second file in shows second, etc...

So, this util would re-order the files in any way you wanted.

I need a util like that again. I have a really basic MP3 player that I just copy MP3 files to an SD card and it plays them... no sorting... just plays them in the order in which they were copied to the SD card. The SD card uses FAT16 file system, so I again need a util like the one I used all those years ago.

The ony problem is, nobody cares about such utils anymore since the OS has been ordering folder contents since like DOS 5.0.

Anyone have any clues out there?
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cant you use the Explorer settings under view - arrange icons?
you can also try this :    http://shareware.pcmag.com/product.php%5Bid%5D59892%5Bcid%5D198%5BSiteID%
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oor this : http://www.freewarehome.com/System_Utilities/File_Management/Organizing_-_Sorting_t.html

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ishmell,

Sounds like you are talking about the days of 'Norton Commander'

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Thanks Will... I will download and check out the dirsort util and if all else fails, i'll just write my own "sort" program that does the formatting and xcopying for me. I have lots of VB experience, but just not enough to actually move files in the filesystem around.