Hi Kees,   
      
   Friday January 03 2014 23:24, you wrote to Ward Dossche:   
      
    KE> Hello Ward!   
    KE> 03 Jan 14 21:57, you wrote to Andrew Leary:   
    WD>> There is no guarantee of any alphabetical order. Is there?   
    KE>  It should be sorted by creation date.   
      
   should and is may vary ....   
   as Ward mentioned ... its a mixture of OS dependent directory listing   
   and the _find_next() low/level-i/o routine to find the next file.   
      
   With the explicit filemask  segment.*  the first found match counts   
   whatever real file it is ...   
   i.e. if an os sorts the filenames in an internal directory table, the files   
   came out in this order. If another OS sorts the files by creation date   
   (as in plain old DOS FAT environments) the filenames cames out by filewritten   
   date (this doesn't have to match with the filedate)   
   Newer OS'ses have an automated defrag routine running. Maybe this routine also   
   sorts the directory listing by whatever order, probably alphabetical filename   
   ordering ?!?  but this is speculative ...   
      
   The segment.* definition is no officialy supported workaround to pickup any   
   segment not following the strict extension-numbers order that is expected by   
   the strict find segment filename search routine built in makenl_ng for   
   "Generic File Name" definition of makenl   
   so in principle you can roll a dime which of the segments in case of   
   potentialy multiple filename mask matches makenl will select   
      
   If you know the raw filename ordering schema of your OS'ses directories   
   and also the current state of ordering schema (in case some maintenance tasks   
   reorders the files) you can manualy check the first filename that matches the   
   segment.* mask.   
      
   Its assumed, that you only have one segment in your working directory of   
   makenl that matches the segment.* filename mask, all other scenarios may ends   
   in a strange result   
      
   With the segment.* definition, you have to do some working directory   
   maintenance manualy, maybe by script or with an own program, so that only one   
   segment will be kept in the makenl working directory for processing.   
      
      
      
    KE> Kees   
    KE> (2:280/5003.4)   
      
   regards, uli   ;-)   
      
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