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Sort works differently among different releas |
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WordPerfect® 6.0 for DOS
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Solutions: Date: December 8, 1993 (Revised: March 21, 1995) Product: WordPerfect 6.0a for DOS STR #: 167169, 214754 Subject: Sort Works Differently Among Different Releases Of WP 6.0 Problem: The customer is sorting a file with hard spaces and punctuation. The sort is not working the same as it did in the initial release of WP 6.0 or in WP 5.1. Steps to Duplicate: 1. Create a file with each line containing a first name, last name, comma, hard space, and another word or letter. For example: Fred Jones, Jr. Fred Flintstone, Sr. George Apple, A 2. Press Ctrl+F9, S, OK, K, E, W, -1, OK, Perform Action. This will sort the lines by word -1, which should be the last name. However, the list will have sorted by the word following the hard space. If the punctuation (the comma) is removed, this problem does not occur. This function has changed since the original release of WP 6.0. Note: The hard space does not actually have to exist for this situation to occur. Answer: This is working as designed. WordPerfect now uses the characters in the first line of field 17 of the package language record in the WP.LRS file as word delimiters because certain languages use specific characters as word delimiters that are not considered word delimiters in the US version. This change makes sorting dates in different languages easier and more accurate. In the 09/13/93 (6.0a) release of WP 6.0 DOS, WP used date delimiters from the .LRS file as word delimiters in Sort. This change was made for international versions of WordPerfect. Commas are a date delimiter in the US version. The user can correct the problem by removing the comma from the .LRS file. In WordPerfect 6.0a for DOS you remove the comma from the WP.LRS file by doing the following: 1) retrieve WP.LRS into WordPerfect 2) search for [HPg]US 3) find field 17 4) remove the comma 5) resave the file 6) exit and re-enter WordPerfect After doing this, Sort will work the way it used to. In WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows you follow the same steps. Source: KRISTYNE/CAROLYNW/ARCWP60 #: 45924, 46597, 40237/DANIELP/BENF Folio: WP60 WPWIN60 Memo ID: 32185G |
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