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From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> From: peter@wemm.org (Peter Wemm)
> Date: Tue 24 Sep, 2002
> Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ?

> How many successful widely distributed OS's are there that does not allow
> sort +N as a numeric argument by default?  (I'm sure somebody can dig up
> an obscure linux distribution or some microcontroller OS or something, I'm
> talking about something on the scale of redhat or solaris or something)

Ditto for "expr -1 + 1"...

		Cheers,

		Mark.

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