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From: davidsen@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Sort bug causes data loss
Keywords: bug, sort
Message-ID: <11983@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 14:39:06 GMT
References: <2675@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <8129@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  Several people have told me to use the -b option on the sort. That
doesn't work. I thought I posted the test script with this option set,
but I didn't. Adding -b to the two sort commands does not change the
behavior on any machines to which I have access.

  Sure saves on disk space, though ;-)

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	- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdgw1.crd.ge.com)
	GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8, KW-C206; Schenectady NY 12345