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To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
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Subject: Re: BSD sort vs GNU sort. 
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From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:19:01 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:13:23PM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > > If you want sufficient test for single-byte sorting & collation, tr=
y to
> > > use ru_RU.KOI8-R encoding.
> > =

> > I am not sure most of us could do that well.  Can you test BSD sort a=
nd
> > report back?
> =

> I don't have it in hand. =

> =

> The test is simple:
> =

> 1) Create the file with single character per line from \000 to \377
> =

> 2) Sort it using =

> 	LC_CTYPE=3Dru_RU.KOI8-R gnu_sort < file
> (I mean _patched_ GNU sort we currently have in sources, not original =

> one which not support collation)
> =

> 3) Sort it using =

> 	LC_CTYPE=3Dru_RU.KOI8-R bsd_sort < file
> =

> 4) Compare results.

{"/home/green/netbsd-sort/basesrc/usr.bin/sort"}$ ruby
File.open('f', 'w') {|f|
    1.upto(255) {|n|
        f.puts(n.chr) if n.chr !~ /^[[:cntrl:]]/
    }
}
{"/home/green/netbsd-sort/basesrc/usr.bin/sort"}$ ls -l f
-rw-r--r--  1 green  green  446 29 =CE=CF=D1 11:46 f
{"/home/green/netbsd-sort/basesrc/usr.bin/sort"}$ md5 f
MD5 (f) =3D 60369ee3857999b452c560c7a8256734
{"/home/green/netbsd-sort/basesrc/usr.bin/sort"}$ sort f | md5
3c31168a9159c2df8d8ce56370579c58
{"/home/green/netbsd-sort/basesrc/usr.bin/sort"}$ ./sort f | md5
60369ee3857999b452c560c7a8256734


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