Dot files always first in directory?

[Doug Gwyn]

>In article <3540 at udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> conan at vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll) writes:
>try "touch #abcd" then 'list' the directory.

The order in which "ls" lists directory entries has nothing
to do with their order in the directory.