Since no one else has mentioned it... You're asking for a donation of others' time, with which people on this site are usually more than generous. It is more polite if you (1) take the time to format your question to make it easy for them to read, and (2) demonstrate that you have spent some of your own time on the question, by showing what you've tried so far.

EDIT: alright, downvote away if you like, but I was trying to be helpful here, not rude. There have been a lot of these "omg pls help kthxbye!" posts recently. I thought it might be a cultural thing -- IRC and most message boards have different standards...

In reply to Re: EBCDIC sort by educated_foo
in thread EBCDIC sort by ramish

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