Re: Moving rc.d scripts to base.tgz

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> Who, after all, relies on lexicographical sorting for the numeric
> components of a filename?

Well....

In recent months I've had Linux inflicted on me at work.  One of the
more annoying things about it is that I keep seeing behaviour like

linuxbox:/home/mouse# ls
extinfo.c  hacks  README  serialconsole.c  tar
linuxbox:/home/mouse# 

Fortunately, it's easy enough to fix ("export LANG=C").  But if sorting
this way (it also appears to ignore punctuation as well as case) by
default is considered tolerable for a major Unix variant, then no, I
don't think very many people depend on the traditional ls sort order.

At least not for anything moderately portable.

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