Hi Paul,

On Wed 2037-Mar-04 16:26, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Richard Webb:

PQ> Hi! Richard,

 RW> Anybody know of any third party prg which will actually sort
 RW> intelligently?

 RW> WIth anything where I've had ability to intervene in the
 RW> process I've just padded places with zeroes, but it would
 RW> sure be nice not to need to.  Especially for the purposes
 RW> I'd really like to utilize a sort.  Ideas anyone?

PQ> Well, I've been racking my brain for about 7 minutes.  The best I
PQ> can come up with is similar to your idea: cheat, by adding a 100
PQ> value to everything... do your sort, and subtract the 100 value(s)
Yep, do that with one program.  Make contact with ham
operators holding a certain award which has a serial number. FOr purposes
of other endorsements you track these numbers.
Any two and 3 digit award holders' numbers are padded with
zeroes when I work them and log them so that sort will
intelligently place them wehre they go.


Regards,
           Richard
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