From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fortune!megatest!jacob@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Sort Problem Article-I.D.: megatest.134 Posted: Tue Aug 24 15:55:55 1982 Received: Thu Sep 9 06:22:56 1982 What I would like to know is if it is possible to sort a file by ONLY the first field? No mather how I try, it always sorts by all fields. I would think that by typing: sort +0.0 -1.0 foo it should work, but it doesn't. Someone told me that the manual information on sort (specifically on the +pos and -pos) is incorrect, is that true? Our UNIX version is 4.1BSD. Thank you. Jacob Bulaevsky megatest