Here are four sort files, zipped into one. They can be loaded just like a default or printer file. The four files take care of various situations of case-sensitivity and whether spaces are honored. CASE.SRT is case-sensitive but ignores the space character. CASE#.SRT is case sensitive and honors the space character. NOCASE.SRT is NON-case-sensitive and ignores the space character. NOCASE#.SRT is NON-case-sensitive and honors the space character. In all files, I have tried to account for the normal alphabet and the extended characters. Where extended characters seem to be repeated, one is the "normal" ASCII character from the lower 255 characters and the other is the special XyWrite character. In all files, the code page is 437 (you can ignore that if you don't know what it means). I have left out some characters like curly quotes, em-dashes, and ligatured letters. You will want to experiment with some scratch files to determine which of these to load. My best guess is that NOCASE#.SRT closely approximates the XyWrite default. One problem with the Xy default is that it will not rearrange words within a case. So if you sort banana and bAnAnA, they'll remain in that order. If default SK=5 (delete duplicates), only the first instance will be kept no matter what it is. So you could conceivably get APPLE and banana in a list that contains APPLE, apple, banana, BANANA. If you ignore spaces and delete duplicates, then The Roux and Theroux will be sorted and collapsed to The Roux. So, you'll also want to see how these files interact with the SK default. If you want the "pure" XyWrite version, you'll have to reboot. Many of the extended characters are from Xy4DOS/WIN. The files may work in III+ without modification (I haven't tried them). If they don't, you can edit out the extended characters. For the ones that show up in pairs, the second one is the extended-beyond 255 one. You can modify these files any way you want, of course. Let me know if you have any comments, additions, etc. Tim Baehr tbaehr@xxxxxxxx baehr@xxxxxxxxAttachment: SORTS.ZIP
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