On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha at 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