Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!DERRZE1!MAINT From: MAINT@DERRZE1.BITNET (Rainer M Woitok) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mailbook Subject: Re: Two more items for the wish list Message-ID: <900117.151132.CET.MAINT@DERRZE1> Date: 17 Jan 90 18:16:06 GMT Sender: MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list Reply-To: MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list Lines: 47 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 16 Jan 90 17:43:34 CST from On Tue, 16 Jan 90 17:43:34 CST Richard A. Schafer said: >On Tue, 16 Jan 90 17:55:56 EST Nick Gimbrone said: >>On Tue, 16 Jan 90 14:27:09 CET Rainer M Woitok said: >>>2. When you sort according to subjects, the resulting sequence will be >>> eg "*A", " A", "*B", " B" etc., which is quite ok. >>I'm not sure I agree about this being ok. >> ... >Not only do I believe that this is *not* OK, as far as I can determine >that's not the way the code actually works. As far as I can verify, >" A" is always sorted before "*A" for precisely the reason that you >want replies to follow the original. If it doesn't work that way >(and so far as I can tell it does), it's a bug. Sorry, I think, I just didn't get my point accross (I didn't mention whether I was using SORTUP or SORTDOWN). But my point was not whether or not subject " A" should precede "*A", but the following: Assume a notebook containing the four items subject " A", date 88-01-01 subject "*A", date 88-01-02 subject " A", date 89-01-01 subject "*A", date 89-01-02 Then SORTUP SUBJECT DATE (as well as SORTUP SUBJECT alone) will produce the sequence subject " A", date 88-01-01 subject " A", date 89-01-01 subject "*A", date 88-01-02 subject "*A", date 89-01-02 while I would prefer after sorting according to subject and date in ascending order to have them in the sequence shown first. I hope, this time at least someone is recognizing my point, even if she or he doesn't agree. Sincerely Rainer .----------------------------------------------------------------------. | Rainer M. Woitok | Phone : (+49 9131) 85-7811,-7031 | | Regionales Rechenzentrum | Fax : (+49 9131) 30 29 41 | | Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet | Telex : d 629 755 tf erl | | D-8520 Erlangen | e-Mail : MAINT@DERRZE1.BITNET | | West Germany | | '----------------------------------------------------------------------'