Re: Bug in sort?

[Bob Proulx]

> Alas, I am afraid my sort problem is more serious than Jim's answer suggests:
> When sorting numerically, even *identical* lines pop up in different places
> in the output!
> Setting the environment variable LC_ALL does not change this behavior.

Up until your latest information your problem fit a well known
signature but at this point diverges.  Perhaps you could try one of
the newer releases and see if the problem may have already been fixed.
The latest test release of textutils is 2.0.11 and is available from
the following locations.

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.11.tar.gz
  ftp://freefriends.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.11.tar.gz

Bob