Re: strange 'sort' behaviour

2008-01-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please keep replies on the list, so that others may chime in or learn from the discussion. According to Eric Stockman on 1/9/2008 4:37 AM: | dear Eric , | Thanks a lot for the quick reply . | I added an " export LC_ALL=POSIX " in my .bash_aliases

Re: strange 'sort' behaviour

2008-01-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Stockman on 1/8/2008 9:01 AM: | i have appended here (shorted) files made by method 2 as explained in | package.doc | ubuntu.apps contains a portion of the merged file and ubuntu.sort is the | result of the sort . Most lik

strange 'sort' behaviour

2008-01-08 Thread Eric Stockman
Dear , Six months now since I started using Ubuntu . I have two 'trial-boot' machines , trial-boot because both machines have 'that other OS' + feisty + gutsy each on a separate partition. Feisty & Gutsy share a common home-partition . Having problems keeping track of the packages-installed and