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