Ralph Corderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Strange.  Could that be because the user's locale means the bytes in the
> files can't be interpreted?

No, I don't believe so. Here is the sample output:

 ___________________________________________________________________________
 EST 01:30:26 PM Monday, December 20 2004 Prog: SORT User: ldm
 InputSize: 51
 Blocksize: 81920 MemoryArea: 94333952 RecsInMemory: 4087228
 processes: 0 IPC_buf_size: 0
 EST 01:30:26 PM Monday, December 20 2004 - DONE

Host system was AIX. I don't know what kind of sort utility was used,
but judging by the report, it was always spitting out such
garbage. Original report is available from: 

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-12/msg00021.html

Regards,
Sergey


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