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From: ben@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Sorting by multiple keys
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Date: 28 Feb 89 19:28:54 GMT
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I want to sort my cards by to "keys" for instance:
if I have a field date and a field name.
I want to sort my cards by date and all events happening on the same day 
to be sorted by name.

sort will not do this for me (as far as I can tell)

I can write an script to get the correct order for me but it seems
that I cannot change the postion of the cards myself.....

My only recourse seems to be to order the card numbers the way I want
(ie. sort the cards and store the sort order in a object) and then 
change the script of the "next", "prev" arrows to go to the correct cards
this is a kludge and I  want a better way!!

Does one exist???

Ben Herman