On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Miguel Medalha miguelmedalha@sapo.pt wrote:
again, Windows NTFS directories are inherently stored in sorted order because they are B-Tree indexes on the filename.
if this distiller process is being run from a "DOS" batch job in Windows, you could perhaps use something like...
for /f %%F in ('dir /b /on *.ps') DO @\path\to\distiller .... %%F ....to run it on all *.ps files in the current working directory in alphabetic order.
Please note that what Distiller is doing is not "run on all *.ps files in alphabetic order". If only that were the case, I wouldn't be here bothering people... Instructed by a special PS file, Distiller is running a set of complex operations on a group of files in alphabetic order.
I can modify that special PS file to make Distiller process the files in any order I want. The problem is that when the order is not provided by the filesystem itself, the process takes forever. That's why I was looking for a solution at the filesystem level. I was trying to understand the inner workings of EXT3 and looking for a workaround.
Thank you for your tip, though. Maybe some day I will need it.
Have you tried what the different codepages do to sort order in Samba?
Check out these options:
dos charset unix charset display charset
-Ross