[Color Computer] [coco] gsort

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:03, George's Coco Address wrote:
>This is interesting.. Looking at it more closely, I find that it sorted
> it in two passes, or something like that.
>
>There are two hundred files sorted and the remaining(201-288) files are
>sorted
>separately. So it goes from A-Z twice.
>
>George
>
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?

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.

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