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From: Roger.W.Brown@dartmouth.edu (Roger W. Brown)
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Subject: Re: Why?
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.203312.6170@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 91 20:33:12 GMT
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In article <120@lake.scar.toronto.edu>
barek@lake.scar.toronto.edu (William Barek) writes:

> Have you ever tried to sort 2 fields ( one text, other
>    numeric) or lines in a field that have two columns one is text other is
>    numeric).

The Dartmouth XCMD's stack version 3.4.3 has an XCMD called MultiSort
that lets you do multilevel sorts on a field if your "columns" are
expressed as items. It will sort alphabetic, numeric, or data/time
ascending or descending. It was written for HC version 1, however, and
does not preserve text styles. 

Dartmouth XCMD's is available on various bulleting boards and via FTP
in /pub/mac/DXCMDs3.4.3.sit.hqx on dartvax.dartmouth.edu.

Roger W. Brown
Courseware Development
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH