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                     LSort 1.1 (3.11.94) © Konrad Dubiel

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                                INTRODUCTION
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    LSort is a freeware and may be freely distributed as long as all files
remain unchanged. The author can not be taken responsible for any damage
caused by this program or its improper use.

    LSort is a localized Sort command, it uses standard locale.library's
functions for string comparison. It adapts automatically to sorting rules
of preferred language set in Locale preferences. LSort must be run from
Shell only, can be made resident and is able to read files from PIPE:
device. LSort requires Workbench 2.1 or later.

Note for Norwegian users:
LSort doesn't sort properly when used with standard Commodore's language
file, which is missing character comparison table. To fix this problem
I've included in this archive corrected file 'norsk.language' which
should be copied to 'LOCALE:Languages' directory of your Workbench disk.
Thanks for Øyvind Falch (oyvindfa@ifi.uio.no) for reporting this.

Suggestions and bug-reports please send to:

Konrad Dubiel
ul. Bartnicza 12/5
71-487 Szczecin
Poland
E-mail: banshee@uoo.univ.szczecin.pl


                                    USAGE
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Template:  LSort FROM/A,TO/A,COLSTART/K/N,REVERSE/S,NOBLANKS/S

FROM       - input file name (to be sorted)
TO         - output file name (after sorting)
COLSTART   - starting column number
REVERSE    - reverse sort direction (Z-A)
NOBLANKS   - skip leading blank characters (spaces, tabs)

Examples:

LSort FROM file1 TO file2
This command will sort file1 and write result to file2

LSort file file COLSTART 10
Sort starting from 10th column and save to the same file

LSort file1 file2 REVERSE NOBLANKS
Reverse sorting with leading spaces being skipped from comparison

LSort PIPE: PRT:
Read file from PIPE:, sort and print it