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From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> From: fenner@research.att.com (Bill Fenner)
> Date: Tue 24 Sep, 2002
> Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ?

> When's the first time the FreeBSD sort(1) man page mentioned that this
> syntax was deprecated?  Can we at least start from there?

I echo this sentiment.  Ideally, two 4.x releases would document something
as deprecated before it actually broke in 5.0 (but preferably it still
wouldn't break by default).

		Cheers,

		Mark.

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