Hello, sorry for my engleash mail, i'm French I have a (big?) problem on program "sort" and i think it's a bug !!! I work on Linux Mandrake7.1, who came in France in July 2000, and i have "textutils2.0". I have a file with six lines and two columns and separator is ":", like this des:a des:s desb:d desb:z des:c des:t I want to sort this file on first column, so i invoke "sort -t: file"... and look the result: des:a desb:d desb:z des:c des:s des:t This is not a correctly result... because the lines "desb:d" and "desb:z" need to go after "des:..." But the letter "a" of "des:a" is sorted with letter "b" of "desb:d" and the separator is not used !!! This problem come when all lines begin by the same letters, like "des". If i change all "desb" by "xyzb", "sort" work correctly. If i test with "textutils-1.22", "sort" is correct. Thank-you for read me Fred _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils