[Color Computer] [coco] gsort

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 17 September 2006 22:30, George's Coco Address wrote:
>> 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?
>
The M is for Maurice and the E is for Eugene, but I've been just plain Gene 
all my life.  Blame it on mother I guess.. :)

>> 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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