On 4 Jan 2000, Jim Meyering wrote:

> You don't say which version of sort you're using nor which type of system
> and distribution.  Please include that information in any problem report.
> I presume it's the one from textutils-2.0 and you're using RedHat 6.1
> and that you have the LC_ALL and LANG envvars set to en_US.
> 
> Unset those environment variables and it will work fine.  I understand
> that this is a problem due to the fact that RH sets those variables and
> that their locale data have errors.

Thank you, that worked.  The version of textutils is 2.0, but i'm not sure
what flavor Linux is being run.  uname -a says:

Linux grace 2.2.13 #2 SMP Wed Dec 29 16:52:13 PST 1999 i686 unknown

                                        thanks again,

                                                -- dave

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