--- loncom/publisher/lonpubdir.pm	2001/06/23 18:26:40	1.9
+++ loncom/publisher/lonpubdir.pm	2001/07/12 21:23:12	1.10
@@ -92,13 +92,15 @@ sub handler {
   my $dirptr=16384;
 
   opendir(DIR,$fn);
-  while ($filename=readdir(DIR)) {
+  my @files=sort(readdir(DIR));
+  foreach my$filename (@files) {
      my ($cdev,$cino,$cmode,$cnlink,
          $cuid,$cgid,$crdev,$csize,
          $catime,$cmtime,$cctime,
          $cblksize,$cblocks)=stat($fn.'/'.$filename);
-     $filename=~/\.(\w+)$/;
-     if (($1 ne 'meta') && (&Apache::lonnet::fileembstyle($1))) {
+     my $extension='';
+     if ($filename=~/\.(\w+)$/) { $extension=$1; }
+     if (($extension ne 'meta') && (&Apache::lonnet::fileembstyle($extension))) {
          my $status='Unpublished';
          my $bgcol='#FFBBBB';
          if (-e $resdir.'/'.$filename) {
@@ -134,6 +136,9 @@ sub handler {
            '><td><a href="'.$linkdir.'/'.$filename.'">'.$disfilename.
            '</a></td><td>'.localtime($cmtime).'</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>');
          }
+     } else {
+       #no extension that we know of and not a directory
+       #just hide it away
      }
   }
   closedir(DIR);