Sorting Order

[charles day]

Bill Vermillion wrote:

>press any key to reboot  -oops- Bob Stockler said on Fri, Jan 14 19:50  
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>>On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:03:39PM -0500, Ken Brody wrote:
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>>| > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:17:02PM -0500, Scott Walker wrote:
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>>| > | Are there any characters (accessable from the keyboard) that can be
>>| > | placed in an alphanumeric type field that when sorted will come out
>>| > | after the "Z" character.
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>>| > A left brace  - chr("173") - {
>>| > A pipe sign   - chr("174") - |
>>| > A right brace - chr("175") - }
>>| > A tilde       - chr("176") - ~
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>>| filePro takes decimal by default, not octal.  ;-)
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>>Sorry about that.
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>>I have a home-spun help utility called by "h".
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>>returns ASCII charts for octal, hex and decimal, and I just
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>>Anyway, the typeable characters after "z" remain the same.
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>Hm. My chart is accessed with 'man ascii' However the Linux
>'man ascii' is a mess to read, and the one on SCO doesn't give
>decimal.   The FreeBSD man page is pure Berkeley code so if someone
>wants the compressed cat file [or the [nt]roff-able version] and
>doesn't want to paw through the stuff at www.freebsd.org, send me
>an email and I'll send it along.
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>My 'h' returns my ksh history.
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>Bill
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For we "physically challeged" windoze users, filePro help under  
char(acter)  displays decimal and hex.

charles day