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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com>
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Subject: Re: Non-GNU Sort
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:14:01AM -0600, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> Is anyone, or does anyone know of anyone, working on a non-GNU licensed
> version of sort? I'm going to try and devote some of my free time to
> beginning this project and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if anyone has
> already gotten started.

I think that NetBSD have BSD-licensed sort(1), but it seems we went on
with GNU for some reason(s).  I suspect multibyte character support is
one of them, probably performance also.

I believe ache@ and/or tjr@ are the right persons to contact WRT this.

./danfe