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Subject: /usr/bin/sort is broken
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:29:52 -0700
From: "Robert A. Bruce" <rab@cdrom.com>
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Resent-From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Hi Jordan,
/usr/bin/sort is broken on mother.  I renamed it to /usr/bin/sort.broken
and copied over a copy of sort from FreeBSD 2.1, which seems to work fine.
I figured I should let you know, so we don't send out FreeBSD 2.2 with
a broken utility.

Here is an example:

/usr/bin/sort.broken +0.5 -0.12 << EOF
    5   1401
   30  30311
  150    721
  187   1241
  215    606
EOF

This comes out as 

    5   1401
   30  30311
  150    721
  187   1241
  215    606

but it should be

  215    606
  150    721
  187   1241
    5   1401
   30  30311

	-bob