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From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: /bin/sort bug
Message-ID: <507@pegasus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 09:46:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: pegasus.507
Posted: Thu Sep  1 09:46:21 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Sep-83 08:51:30 EDT
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I just looked at my 4.1 Berkeley manual, my System III manual, and my System
V manual, and they all had the same comment:

    Lines that otherwise compare equal are ordered with all bytes
    significant.

It looks like that "bug"/"feature" has been around for a LONG time.

					Tony Hansen
					pegasus!hansen