Sort order of hidden files in dired

[Tom Wurgler]

In previous versions of emacs/dired, the hidden files were listed first in a
dired and then all other files.  Now they are by alphabetical order w/o regards
to the leading ".".  Can I set something to restore the old behavior?




In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2007-06-04 on alnx004
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40399902
configured using `configure  
'--prefix=/u/rdsnfs2/t901353/programs/emacs_pretest''

Important settings:
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  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
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