Re: Who sorts the printer model names?

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On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:01:35PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:45:51 +0000
> Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Well, '6L' seems like a smaller model number than '1015' to me, so I
> > would expect '6L' to come before '1015' just like I'd expect '250' to
> > come before it as well.  The models are sorted with numeric portions
> > compared as numbers.
> 
> "6L" doesn't seem like a number at all to me - last time I looked 'L'

Well, to me it sounds like the L variant of the 6th model of the
laserjet. I personally would expect 6L to appear earlier in a list than
1015.

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