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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Multiple Field Sorts in UNIX(tm)
Message-ID: <6206@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 00:21:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 31 00:21:46 1987
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In article <3679@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>Will someone who
>knows all of what sort can do *please* write and post a PD man page for it?
>Something more readable than the trash that AT&T wrote?

Actually, AT&T rewrote the "sort" manual entry for SVR2.
Unfortunately, in the process of clarifying things,
they broke some of the specs.  The SVR3 manual corrected this.
It now seems no worse than most manual entries;
i.e. the specification is unambiguous (but is not a tutorial).