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Subject: Numerical Sort on Unix
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I have become very fond of the Unix sort program.  However, I
have run into a problem:

I need to do a numerical sort, and have records  which
have  non-numerical values in the sort field placed after
the numerically sorted items in the output.  The 'sort' pro-
gram  presently  puts  non-numerical  items before numerical
values.

Any advice?  Thanks.  Sam Scalise