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From: dmittman@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Mittman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard sorting
Keywords: HyperCard, sorting
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Date: 26 Feb 91 16:41:37 GMT
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I believe that the key to sorting cards by multiple fields is to
perform individual sorts, from the last key to the first key. In other
words, these two sorts are equivalent (except that the first is not
allowed in HyperTalk).

sort cards by bg fld "Test" and bg fld "Junk"

sort cards by bg fld "Junk"  --  Second key
sort cards by bg fld "Test"  --  First key

As always, I could very well be wrong.		- David