file list anomaly

[Richard Gaskin]

I have an app in testing that obtains a list of files and uses 
lineoffset to do a lookup.  I had some Windows users who were reporting 
errors, but only a few.  I added logging and had them test some more and 
looking through the logs it seems that on some systems the listing of 
files was not returned in alphabetical order.

This was easy enough to fix with the sort command, but I'm curious: 
what determines the order of files returned in "the files" on Win systems?

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