problems w/ NB4.2 sort function

["Theron F. Schlabach" <theron>]

I've had 3 different computers now in which the sort function of my NB4.2
just is dead.  Zilch.  It's NOT that the file is too large--I know all
about that.  But even running a test to reorder 
3
2
1
to
1
2
3
does not work.  Just no response.

The first two computers on which the sort function failed were old (a 286
laptop and a 386 monochrome) and I didn't much care about them.   But now
I'm trying to run it with Windows 95's version of DOS, with a nearly
state-of-the-computer, and I get the same ornery result.

Odd thing is, the sort program has worked in a 486 I had with Windows 3.11,
and with another Pentium with Windows 95.

I assume that they key is having the right match between 4.2 and DOS, but I
have no proof of that.

Does anybody recognize the problem and have a fix?  New York, are you
listening?

TheronFS


Theron F. Schlabach, Prof. of History
Goshen College, Goshen IN 46526
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