<munch, munch> Thanx for all the mail regarding the sort problems. As it turned out the -b option to ignore leading blanks only works in field compares. Thanx again for all your help. -- ==> Ephrayim J. Naiman @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6259 Paths: [ihnp4, allegra, ahuta, maxvax, cbosgd, lzmi, ...]!pegasus!naiman