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  • Subject: Re: Explaing "order" of Alpha field...
  • From: Buck Calabro/commsoft<mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:08:43 -0500

On 03/22/99 01:41:13 PM Chuck Lewis  wrote:

>What I have is a physical inventory location file/programs (3rd party)
>that has Row, Bin, Shelf as 3A and our users came off of a Unix system
>and home grown apps and are having trouble with this so sort for bin
>labels, etc. are coming out all screwed up...

Take a look at TRNTBL and see if you can/want to sort it in ASCII order 
instead of EBCDIC.  I've never tried it, but you may be able to build a 
logical and use QASCII to change the sort order to the way the users 
expect.  That could be much more trouble than it's worth...

Buck Calabro
Billing Concepts Inc (formerly CommSoft), Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
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