Original Area: SYSOP249
 Original From: Kevin Kell (1:249/100)
 Original To  : Jason Hendriks (1:249/174)
Did I ever ask you about whipping up a little max util that would sort 
entries in the filearea.ctl and/or msgarea.ctl?
You or anybody else?
Max 3.x doesn't sort the areas anymore (2.x did) and I haven't seen any way 
to do this.... so... a quick and dirty little program to work on a file that 
looks like this:
Store the top & bottom division commands, pick out the msgarea keyword & 
store everything until the end msgarea tag... then sort based on the first 
line of each entry... then write it back out again.
MsgDivisionBegin Kingston  limited/u . DIV: Usenet KINGSTON message areas
msgarea    bbs
     Acs        Limited/u
     Desc       kingston.bbs
     Origin     . . Starstream.crp.kingston.on.ca
     Override   Message Msg_Enter  Worthy
     Override   Message Msg_Upload Worthy
     Override   Message Msg_Reply  Worthy
     Path       d:\msg\usenet\kingston\BBS
     Renum days 60
     Renum Max  100
     style      nomailcheck conf  Squish readonly
     Tag        kingston.bbs
End Msgarea
msgarea    eats
     Acs        Limited/u
     Desc       kingston.eats
     Origin     . . Starstream.crp.kingston.on.ca
     Override   Message Msg_Enter  Worthy
     Override   Message Msg_Upload Worthy
     Override   Message Msg_Reply  Worthy
     Path       d:\msg\usenet\kingston\EATS
     Renum days 60
     Renum Max  100
     style      nomailcheck conf  Squish readonly
     Tag        kingston.eats
End Msgarea
MsgDivisionEnd
This is a bad example as they are already sorted... but I've got over 600 
others and I can tell you they are not in alphabetical order!
--- Maximus/2 3.01
---------------