diff --git a/src/modules/punk-0.1.tm b/src/modules/punk-0.1.tm
index 0123e237..90d0af8c 100644
--- a/src/modules/punk-0.1.tm
+++ b/src/modules/punk-0.1.tm
@@ -3596,7 +3596,7 @@ namespace eval punk {
         }
         #file normalize may change backslashes to forward slashes.. including things like the special \\?\ prefix which is intended to stop windows api from parsing a name
         #2023 - this is ok as //?/ also seems to work.. but it is unclear if that is because Tcl is re-converting to backslashes 
-        if {[punk::winpath_illegalname_test] $path} {
+        if {[punk::winpath_illegalname_test $path]} {
             set path [punk::winpath_illegalname_fix $path]
         }
 
@@ -4112,6 +4112,7 @@ namespace eval punk {
         #also determine whether vfs.  file system x  is *much* faster than file attributes
         set vfs [list] ;#dict keyed on dir/file name
         set dirs    [glob -nocomplain -directory $location -type d -tail $glob]
+        set dirs [lsort $dirs] ;#todo - natsort
         foreach d $dirs {
             if {[lindex [file system $d] 0] eq "tclvfs"} {
                 lappend vfs $d [file system $d]
@@ -4119,6 +4120,7 @@ namespace eval punk {
         }
 
         set files   [glob -nocomplain -directory $location -type f -tail $glob]
+        set files [lsort $files] ;#todo natsort
         return [list dirs $dirs vfs $vfs files $files location $location]
     }
     proc dirfiles {{glob ""}} {
@@ -5114,7 +5116,7 @@ namespace eval punk {
     
     #namespace/command/proc query
     interp alias {} nslist {} punk::nslist
-    interp alias {} nslist_dict {} punk::nslist
+    interp alias {} nslist_dict {} punk::nslist_dict
 
     if {$::tcl_platform(platform) eq "windows"} {
         set has_powershell 1