Re: Sort doesn't sort

2009-08-20 Thread Han Boetes
Woodchuck wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > You do not say which version of OpenBSD you are running. I > > tried your example on current (amd64 and i386) and 4.5 (amd64) > > and did get the proper results. > > 4.2 I've been too cowardly to upgrade. It's not that h

Re: Sort doesn't sort

2009-08-20 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 04:54:26AM -0400, Woodchuck wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > You do not say which version of OpenBSD you are running. I tried your > > example on current (amd64 and i386) and 4.5 (amd64) and did get the > > proper results. > > > >

Re: Sort doesn't sort

2009-08-20 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 04:10:35AM -0400, Woodchuck wrote: > Sorry for cowering behind a pseudonymous email address, (...) > Perhaps this is cowardly in certain nations more closely associated > with their former or present colonial Masters than my own (...) Please keep politics off this list and

Re: Sort doesn't sort

2009-08-20 Thread Janne Johansson
Woodchuck wrote: >> You do not say which version of OpenBSD you are running. I tried your >> example on current (amd64 and i386) and 4.5 (amd64) and did get the >> proper results. >> > 4.2 I've been too cowardly to upgrade. I'd have thought that "sort" > might have been frozen in amber a few deca

Re: Sort doesn't sort

2009-08-20 Thread Woodchuck
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > You do not say which version of OpenBSD you are running. I tried your > example on current (amd64 and i386) and 4.5 (amd64) and did get the > proper results. > >-Otto 4.2 I've been too cowardly to upgrade. I'd have thought that "so

Re: Sort doesn't sort

2009-08-20 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 04:10:35AM -0400, Woodchuck wrote: > I have transposed the output to rows for ease of study. For these > examples, ascii collating order and numeric collating order are by > coincidence the same. > > cat testfile > 16.88 16.54 15.12 15.00 14.57 > > sort testfile > 14.57

Sort doesn't sort

2009-08-20 Thread Woodchuck
Sorry for cowering behind a pseudonymous email address, but I have the same given names as certain famous people in professions related to mine and wish to avoid confusion. Moreover such fame and identity as I have is tied to the delightful creature, the woodchuck, after which I am pseudonamed. P