> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 15 Mar 2002 16:34:08 GMT
> 
> sort treats whitespace as column separators, by default.

But you need to specify an option to get that behavior.  He was using
'sort' With no options, and in that case 'sort' sorts the entire input
line, including white space.

The rest of your comments were on target, though.  I think he had LANG set.

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