Laurie, COMPRESS from PCTools will reorder the files if you specify various switches. I will check the manual on the switches, but IIRC:
/OO Ordinary Ordering /OD DOS Ordering and a couple of others that I can't remember offhand. (On of them takes a helluva long time to do each time.) Roger Turk Laurie Proud wrote: . > I was thinking more about the benefit of re-ordering the files, which . > I understand the freebie de-frags do not do. . > Yes Ok...just a de-frag on the files might not be a big improvement, . > but you dont free the slack to the rear of the free space. Files . > saved after defrag will then be highly fragmented. That's why . > I was wondering about a full file sort and defrag. From what you say . > I could not use the programs I have, as there is no long file name . > support. It was just an idea...(cannot resist messing). . > Thank's Laurie
