outline-style sorting algorithm

[Peter Otten]

Michael Geary wrote:

> Interestingly enough, in Windows XP, Windows Explorer lists these files in
> numerical order:
> 
> file1
> file2
> ...
> file9
> file10
> file11

Seems they special-cased this. Can they deal with

fi1le
fi2le
fi10le

and

1file
2file
10file

too?

> It would be nice if more OS shells sorted filenames like this.

D'accord.

Peter