Does anyone have a clue about the roots of alphabetic order? It seems
remarkably stable for something that seems so arbitrary.

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John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
"One time I called in to the central system and started working on a big
thick 'sed' and 'awk' heavy duty data bashing script. One of the geologists
came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too.
Try hanging up and phoning in again.'" --Beverly Erlebacher