Why is this not doing as I expect?

[Michael Havens]

I was expecting the wrong thing in this case!
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:-)~Mike~(-:

On Friday 14 February 2003 11:34 am, Jenny Charlene wrote:
> On Friday 14 February 2003 11:21 am, Michael Havens wrote:
> > Or am I expecting the wrong thing?
> >
> > [bmike1@localhost bmike1]$
> > [bmike1@localhost bmike1]$ sort > sort-test
> > gosh apple time tully
> > free freedom
> > more sort-test
> > <cntrl-D>
> > [bmike1@localhost bmike1]$ more sort-test
> > free freedom
> > gosh apple time tully
> > more sort-test
> > [bmike1@localhost bmike1]$
>
> Sort only looks to the first letter of each line, so your result is sor=
ted
> correctly!