Re: Incorrect lexographical sort in sort (coreutils) 5.2.1

2005-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Murray Stokely wrote: > The current version of GNU sort on my Linux box incorrectly > sorts the following simple file, while an older version of GNU > sort on MacOS X 10.4 works fine. Thanks for the report. It is most appreciated. However it matches a very common problem signature which is not u

Re: Incorrect lexographical sort in sort (coreutils)5.2.1

2005-10-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Murray Stokely wrote: > The current version of GNU sort on my Linux box incorrectly > sorts the following simple file, while an older version of GNU > sort on MacOS X 10.4 works fine. > > $ sort --version > sort (coreutils) 5.2.1 Version 5.2.1 is more than 18 months old (released 2004-03-12) and

Incorrect lexographical sort in sort (coreutils) 5.2.1

2005-10-27 Thread Murray Stokely
The current version of GNU sort on my Linux box incorrectly sorts the following simple file, while an older version of GNU sort on MacOS X 10.4 works fine. $ sort --version sort (coreutils) 5.2.1 $ cat scrambled version0/data/r=2/1/45 3.2 version0/data/r=2/1/42 12.3 version0/data/r=2 146839.1 ver