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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? 
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<<On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:30:11 -0700, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> said:

> Oh man, this is going to suck.  There are thousands and thousands of third
> party scripts that use +n syntax.

> I am most unhappy with this change. :-(

The time to complain about it was back in 1992when the old syntax was
labeled ``deprecated'' by P1003.2, or in 1999 when the revision cycle
was just heating up.  Old deprecated features were automatically
dropped leading up to the 2001 revision, unless someone could make a
case for their retention.  That case wasn't made in the case of
`sort', and as a result the Standard no longer permits the old syntax.
It's not like people didn't have nine years' advance warning to fix
their scripts.

FreeBSD supported `-k' in 1.0; see
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/Attic/sort.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup>.

-GAWollman


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