On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:20:48 -0800, Frank Yaeger wrote:
>
>For the example input, SORTOUT would have:
>
>005.226.019.008
>133.032.227.001
>
Be very careful!  I tried something similar with some TCP/IP
UNIX command a while back; just to get the columns to line up
vertically.  Ouch!  The command assumed, after venerable UNIX
tradition, that any number beginning with a '0' is Base 8!

Terrible convention.

-- gil

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