Re: sort 5.97 bug sorting a month embedded in a field

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gordon Grimes on 9/26/2006 9:52 PM: > Eric, > > I don't see it set in the cygwin environment. Why didn't you mention your platform in the first case? Cygwin lacks locales (thanks to its use of newlib, which is currently hardcoded to the

Re: sort 5.97 bug sorting a month embedded in a field

2006-09-26 Thread Paul Eggert
"Gordon Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I have 18 years experience with 'sort') > > [529] > cat dates > 142 01-APR-2006 > 16 01-DEC-2005 > 31 01-FEB-2006 > 13 01-JAN-2006 > 55 01-MAR-2006 > 13312 01-MAY-2006 > 1 01-NOV-2005 > 1 01-OCT-2005 > 145 02

RE: sort 5.97 bug sorting a month embedded in a field

2006-09-26 Thread Gordon Grimes
you get it to work with embedded values? Thanks, gordon -Original Message- From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:46 PM To: Gordon Grimes Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: sort 5.97 bug sorting a month embedded in a field -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: sort 5.97 bug sorting a month embedded in a field

2006-09-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gordon Grimes on 9/26/2006 6:01 PM: > Hi, > I'm unable to get "M" (month) to sort from within a field. See below. > (I have 18 years experience with 'sort') > > [529] > cat dates > 142 01-APR-2006 > 16 01-DEC-2005 > 31 01-F

sort 5.97 bug sorting a month embedded in a field

2006-09-26 Thread Gordon Grimes
Hi, I'm unable to get "M" (month) to sort from within a field. See below. (I have 18 years experience with 'sort') [529] > cat dates 142 01-APR-2006 16 01-DEC-2005 31 01-FEB-2006 13 01-JAN-2006 55 01-MAR-2006 13312 01-MAY-2006 1 01-NOV-2005 1 01-OCT-2005