I am using RedHat 7.2 and recently upgraded my packages to use fileutils-4.1.4. The sort version is 2.0.14 and the ls version is 1.5i1.
In both cases, they are no longer sorting via ASCII value, and are sorting in a case insensitive fashion. While there is an option on sort to sort case-insensitive, there is no option to make it a case sensitive sort. The info pages and man pages both indicate the sorts are alleged to be ASCII, as well. I see nothing in my environment that should modify sort order, my environment is enclosed: PWD=/home/james TZ=PST8PDT XAUTHORITY=/home/james/.Xauthority WINDOWID=37748750 VENDOR=intel HOSTNAME=annapurna.sagarmatha.com novi=false PVM_RSH=/usr/bin/rsh QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-2.3.1 LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s BLOCKSIZE=1k KDEDIR=/usr USER=james LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.sh=01;32:*.csh=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35: MACHTYPE=i386 MAIL=/var/mail/james LANG=en_US HOST=annapurna.sagarmatha.com DISPLAY=:0.0 LOGNAME=james SHLVL=8 GROUP=james _=/home/james/bin/elmvi SHELL=/bin/csh HOSTTYPE=i386-linux CVSROOT=/home/src OSTYPE=linux LAMHELPFILE=/etc/lam/lam-helpfile PVM_ROOT=/usr/share/pvm3 HOME=/home/james TERM=xterm SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass PATH=.:/home/james/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/home/james/ppp:/usr/sbin:/sbin -- James C. Armstrong, Jr. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It's _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils