I noticed that I should have sent this report here...
----------
> From: Richard L. Kitchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: textutils 2.0 - sort
> Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 10:57 AM
>
> Dear Mike,
>
> Glad to meet you. I found your name in the source code for
> sort 2.0 so I hope you are the correct person to contact.
>
> I'm having a problem with the new version of sort from the
> textutils 2.0 package. I've found a situation where it
> doesn't appear to do an ascii sort properly. Perhaps there
> have been some changes to the package and I am not using it
> properly but after reading the docu I think I may have
> actually found a problem.
>
> I have an input file which looks like this (in the actual
> application I am sorting tuples from a database).
>
> BL 01-1|1000|asdfasdf
> BL 01-1|1011|asdfasdf
> BL 01-1|1012|asdfasdf
> BL 01-1| 10|asdfasdf
> BL 02-1|1011|asdfasdf
> BL 02-1|1012|asdfasdf
>
> If I pass the file through sort 2.0 I get this (it is
> improperly sorted) :
>
> BL 01-1|1000|asdfasdf
> BL 01-1|1011|asdfasdf
> BL 01-1|1012|asdfasdf
> BL 01-1| 10|asdfasdf
> BL 02-1|1011|asdfasdf
> BL 02-1|1012|asdfasdf
>
> If I pass the file through sort 1.22 I get this (it is
> properly sorted) :
>
> BL 01-1| 10|asdfasdf
> BL 01-1|1000|asdfasdf
> BL 01-1|1011|asdfasdf
> BL 01-1|1012|asdfasdf
> BL 02-1|1011|asdfasdf
> BL 02-1|1012|asdfasdf
>
> thanks,
>
> Richard L. Kitchen
> Digital Systems Engineer
> National Electrostatics Corp.
>
>
>
