Re: alphabetic ordering

To:	"Roger Marquis" <marquis@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: alphabetic ordering
From:	"Bruce Korb" <bkorb@xxxxxxx>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:19:20 -0700
Cc:	austin-group-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> wrote:
> PPS. Common syntax must retain backwards compatibility.  It was difficult
>  enough having to add LANG=C and _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 to dozens of scripts

To this day, if you do not specify your locale, "ls" and "bash" come up with
different orderings and each maintainer says the other is wrong.  Bad,
bad, bad idea.  :(

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