Works fine, Steve, and thanks. One query: why the "erase %t" at the end? Being afraid it might erase my files, I remmed it out before I ran it. --arsesq

Absolutely! I have 4NT 5.1 to be exact. I got 4DOS not long after its inception, and I still think of it that way. Yes, 4NT is what I mean. Even that's from long, long ago. Hopefully there won't be any compatibility issues involved in the batch-file-code solution.

I've got a camera that names its files in its own way. When one uses Windows Explorer to list them by filename, they're out of chronological order. Fine, but I can sort them by file date in Windows Explorer, so no problem. Right? No, because my movie-editing software sorts the files *only* by...