function show(obj,nosort) {
  if (typeof(obj) != "object" && typeof(obj) != "function") {return obj}
  if (!obj) {return "NULL"}
  var id = []; var fn = []; var err = [];
  var i; var string = "=====================\n";
  for (i in obj) {
    // Mozilla (PC) can fail to take typeof for some objects.  Grr!
    try {
      if (typeof(obj[i]) == 'function') 
        {fn[fn.length] = i} else {id[id.length] = i}
    } catch (error) {err[err.length] = i}
  }
  if (nosort == null) {
    id.sort(function(a,b) {return (a.toLowerCase() < b.toLowerCase()) ? -1 : 1});
    fn.sort(function(a,b) {return (a.toLowerCase() < b.toLowerCase()) ? -1 : 1});
    err.sort(function(a,b) {return (a.toLowerCase() < b.toLowerCase()) ? -1 : 1});
  }
  var last = null;
  for (i=0; i<id.length; i++) {
    if (id[i] != last) {// avoid duplicates in Safari
      // MSIE (PC) crashes if we pass unknown objects to valueFor()
      //   so handle them here
      string += id[i] + ' = '
             + ((typeof(obj[id[i]]) == 'unknown') ? 'UNKNOWN' : valueFor(obj[id[i]]))
             + '\n';
      last = id[i];
    }
  }
  if (fn.length) {string += '---------------------\n'}
  for (i=0; i<fn.length; i++) {
    if (fn[i] != last) {
      string += fn[i] + ' = ' + valueFor(obj[fn[i]]) + '\n';
      last = fn[i];
    }
  }
  if (err.length) {string += '---------------------\n'}
  for (i=0; i<err.length; i++) {string += err[i] + ' = ERROR\n'}
  return string;
}

function valueFor(obj) {
  switch (typeof(obj)) {
    case 'number':
    case 'undefined':
      return obj;

    case 'string':
      return '"' + obj + '"';

    case 'function':
      return "[function]";

    case 'object':
      if (!obj) {return "[null]"}
      return "[object]";

  }
  return '[unknown]';
}