brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) (08/04/89)
In my posting regarding the combine script and the use of wildcards, I gave an example of tar creating an archive with the files in the order they were in the directory. I received a piece of e-mail that made me run a test with tar. I noticed that if one does: tar cvf /dev/null . that the files will be in directory entry order. But if one does: tar cvf /dev/null * the files will be in alphabetical order. So, sh and csh expansion of the wildcards will be in alphabetical order. The bottom line is that the very short script will then work just fine and to NEVER MIND :-) -- harvard\ att!nicmad\ Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!brown rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ ARPA/INTERNET: brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu