semi OT: sort dir

["Myron Gochnauer" goch@xxxxxxxx]

Does anyone know of a utility that will literally sort a long-filename
directory, so that the on-disk directory is in the sorted order?

Back in the days of DOS 2.1, Norton's Utilities had something like
"dsort.com" that would sort and rewrite directories on the disk. With the
advent of Windows, directory sorting became a common, 'virtual' activity.

Short of creating a new directory and copying the files into it in the order
I would like, is there a way to rearrange a directory "in-place".

I've noticed (I think) that when Win2K copies files to another drive it
doesn't always do this in the order that they appear in Windows Explorer.
[Am I wrong about this?] I have a device with a hard disk in it that does
not offer any way of sorting files before using them, so I want to be able
to ensure that files are written to it in a specific order.

Myron