From: Ellen K. 

Rich,

I understand your rationale for quoting back the entire thread to which
you're replying, but including the binary attachments?!?

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:55:49 -0700, "Rich"  wrote in message
:

>   Alphanumeric order is whatever you want it to be.  It's not a particularly
meaningful term.  Maybe you are thinking of ASCII order but you probably do
not as you likely expect case insensitivity.
>
>   As for sorting of list views, even ignoring locale sensitivity and the
common case insensitivity, the sort key is often a function of the display
value and not the value directly.  Using your example of newsgroup posts,
the initial Re: is stripped when OE sorts by subjects.
>
>   Finally, look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/winui/winui/window
suserinterface/resources/strings/stringreference/stringfunctions/comparestring.
asp and in particular the comparison between word sort and string sort.
Filenames in a shell folder view in Windows 2000 are compared using a word
sort.
>
>Rich
>
>  "Geo."  wrote in message
news:40f99f46{at}w3.nls.net...
>  Ok, I thought I understood computers.
>
>  You all know what alphanumeric order means right? You sort newsgroup posts
by title and this one appears at the top because it begins with a ! instead
of a letter and the ! character comes first in an alpha sort. (last in some
alpha orders I guess)
>
>  Ok so explain the attached alpha order of a directory I just created as a
test in W2K. This has got to be a microsoftism..
>
>  Geo.
>
>

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