[Color Computer] [coco] gsort

George's Coco Address yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com
Sun Sep 17 22:30:36 EDT 2006


> Whose gsort are we talking about here?  The one I did, might do that
> because an uppercase first character is less numericly than a lowercase.
> Is that the effect you see?

I renamed the ones that were lower case in the first letter. I used Excel to 
create this script and exectuted it on the coco. It worked fine and then I 
ran gsort (now Gsort) and all is as I wanted.

GSort.(c) 1990, 1991, 1992 by M. E. Heskett .."...GSort Ver. 12 ->

When did you change your name?  > M.E. Heskett?

>
> It also does this in a recursive mode IIRC, so really big dirs might take 
> a
> while, but its also doing a simultainous housecleaning in that directory,
> much more than the original, which left all sorts of garbage between the
> last, MSB set byte of the name, the the 3 byte LSN number at the end of
> that 32 byte allocation.
>
> To check, do a vfy or an ident on it.  If its not edition $0E or 14 in
> decimal, goto rtsi and get that one.  GSort14.lzh or something like that.
>

 I'll get the latter gsort now, Gene.

Thanks,

George 




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