[pdftex] hyperref and cite

[Barney Dalton]

Aiko Huckauf wrote:
> 
> >> The question was raised this morning about getting numerical references
> >> sorted.  There is a package that does this already: citesort.sty,
> >> written by Donald Arseneau  in 1989:
> >>
> >>       ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/obsolete/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/citesort.sty
> >>
> >> It is on the TeXlive-5d CD in
> >>       texmf/tex/latex/ltxmisc/citesort.sty
> 
>
> In the meantime I found a solution using natbib instead of cite.
> Natbib knows the option "sort&compress", and with a small additional
> workaround, the combination natbib/hyperref produced exactly what I
> wanted to have.

What was the small additional workaround, as I have to do the same for
my thesis. 
thanks
barney