Problem with Linux sort

[William Heintzelman]

Hello,

I'm running Red Hat 7.3.  

A simple "sort testfile" applied to the following file

testfile
--------
HESSE                 GRETE
HEMMANN               BEATE
HESS                  RUTH
HERLYN                MEENHARD

produces the following result:

HEMMANN               BEATE
HERLYN                MEENHARD
HESSE                 GRETE
HESS                  RUTH

I am puzzled as to why the record beginning with HESSE
is sorted before the one beginning with HESS.

When I do the same thing on a Solaris system, I get the
result that I would expect:

HEMMANN               BEATE
HERLYN                MEENHARD
HESS                  RUTH
HESSE                 GRETE


William J. Heintzelman