>The problem that I am experiencing is that the data is being sorted using the >ASCII collating sequence (i.e., numerics precede alphabetics).
I understand the UNIX sort shell command always sorts according to the *collating sequence* defined in the current locale. Is't not ASCII and it's not EBCDIC, it's not a sort in the binary content of the bytes. I had not looked into this in detail before but it seems that the C-locale (the default) defines that digits collate before upper case and upper case before lower case. Other locales do otherwise, e.g. De_CH seems to define digits collate before letters, and lower case and upper case letters collate equally, i.e. ther is no diference between 'a' and 'A'. You should be able to see the difference is you add a stem containing one variable "LC_COLLATE=..." to your bpxwunix call. Now with all this said, I can't come up with a solution to your problem, namely sorting the stem in strict binary sequence. -- ßph ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
