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Date:      Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:46:04 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sort(1) memory usage
Message-ID:  <20080203174604.GM1179@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <86lk62kqeh.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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* Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> Count this as a vote for ditching GNU sort in favor of a BSD-licensed
> implementation (from {Net,Open}BSD for instance).

I just looked at the OpenBSD implementation and I can see it already
misses one option that some people will miss, namely numeric sorting
(-g). I don't know anything about NetBSD's implementation or how hard it
is to add.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/

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