<jargon, programming> /as'kee-be'-t*-kl or'dr/ Used to
indicate that data is sorted in ASCII collated order rather
than alphabetical order. The main difference is that, in
ASCII, all the upper case letters come before any of the lower
case letters so, e.g., "Z" comes before "a".
[Jargon File]
(1999-04-08)
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