On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:13:58PM -0500, Paul Garrett wrote:
> 
> Dear GNU.org,
> 
> In the new RedHat/Fedora, "ls" no longer ASCII-betizes, but
> alphabetizes, and even ignores leading dots, so dotfiles are mixed in
> among other files.
> 
> Is this a feature?

Yes it is.
You can control ls' (and other programs') behaviour setting LC_COLLATE.
Have a look at your libc's documentation for further information.

You most probably want to use
#v+
$ LC_COLLATE=C
$ export LC_COLLATE
#v-


Regards,
 Thomas


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