Thank you! THAT is the clue I needed. I need to quote the stem names. Passing plain Index. passes "", the value of Index., to sort.
Problem solved. Thanks all. CM On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:22:02 +0000, Alan Young <ayo...@teleport.com> wrote: >I think I have always used the position specification format. In a couple of >processes I ran before, I have > >xrc = BPXWUNIX("/bin/sort -bdu -k1.1,1.11 ","pl.","pls.") ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN