Re: Bug in the sort utility

[Alan Curry]

Warner Mike - miwarn writes:
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Quoted-Unreadable. Minus 10 points.

> I am expecting the output to come out in ASCII sorted order.  If the
> first 2 rows were correctly ordered, the last row (M=3DL) should actually
> be the second row which would be followed by all of the (M-, M-A, M-K
> rows).  The reason it appears to be a bug is because it is ignoring
> these printable ASCII characters when I don't think it should be.  The
> whole part about some entries with a dash or an equal sign coming before
> the entries with an I in the second character and some coming after is
> also quite strange.

Failure to read the FAQ, where the common complaint about sort is fully
explained. Minus 10 points.

> The information contained in this communication is confidential, is
> intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally
> privileged.

Sending a message to a public mailing list and calling it "confidential".
Minus 40 points.

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Including 100 lines of MIME-encoded GIF at the bottom of your "I'm too dumb
and/or lazy to read the FAQ, and by the way don't tell anybody, it's
confidential" message just so we can all see your dumb company logo.
Minus 50 points.

And after all that, the stupid slogan in your stupid company's stupide logo
actually includes the word "intelligent". Points erased, my head exploded.

-- 
Alan Curry