[plug] Recovering from munged permissions

[James Devenish]

In message <20030704164406.GC980 at erdos.home>
on Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:44:06AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On an unrelated note:  at one point "ls" used to sort ASCIIbetically
> with uppercase letters and dotfiles at the top. Recent versions seem to have
> stopped doing that and sort case insensitively, ignoring preceding dots.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

> Is there a simple way to get ls to revert to the original behaviour?

Perhaps try setting your LANG to something POSIX-like (e.g. try POSIX C
to see if it makes a difference).

PS. What OS is this? What version of fileutils?