Mixing with the wrong sort

Yesterday, SiteMatch failed to finish loading on my ARMX6.
After a power Power off and a good night’s sleep the problem persisted.

With the help of Reporter I have traced the problem to a clash of names.

After SiteMatch reads in the site data it issues a *sort command to sort the data by date. SiteMatch is expecting the *sort command to be actioned by Martin Avison’s ArmSort.
However, on my machine it tries to use the sort from !CoreUtils and goes into a loop.

…..
Trace @ ¦ ENDPROC
Trace @ ¦ENDPROC
Trace @ ENDPROC
17:38:19.33 Sort P% cpath$() cstamp%(e) csize%(e)
17:38:19.33 WimpSlot -min 381k
17:38:19.33 Run SCSI::SSD.$.Apps.Utilities.!CoreUtils.sort
P% cpath$() cstamp%(e) csize%(e)
17:38:19.34 RMEnsure SharedUnixLibrary 1.07
…..

I don’t know the best way to fix this apart from uninstalling !CoreUtils, but then !Bash would have to go as well as it is not a lot of good on its own.

That prompted me to investigate what official allocations I had for ArmSort. It was originally written in 1990 when I replaced my BBC with a super fast RiscPC! I have found an Allocations file and an acceptance email, dated 2005, which includes the entry for a StarCmd of Sort. So I can claim that ArmSort has the moral high ground. It is used in many applications – including SiteMatch.

However, that does not solve your problem. Can the author of CoreUtils change the name of the command used? Is there any way to direct a command to a particular module? Is there any other way?