According to Sheila Yao on 1/18/2010 12:32 PM:
> At one box, I've sort version 5.2.1 and sort works correctly. At another box 
> with sort 5.97, it doesn't work correctly.

Both of those are quite old.  The latest stable version is 8.4.

> It works correctly for this output:

It probably works correctly for both outputs, with the difference boiling
down to a difference in your input - namely your locale environment
variables.  This is a FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

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Eric Blake             e...@byu.net

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