[ On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 10:49:57 (+1030), wulf@ping.net.au wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: bin/20259: sort(1) numeric sort incorrect with -kn
>
> Not compliance to a standard is a bad thing. 

I agree.

I'm not even sure the NetBSD sort, as it is documented, is
non-compliant.  It may actually be compliant (just that the
documentation itself isn't exactly as lucid as it could be).

My first reading of the bug report suggested this was just a usage
issue, but I've since realized that it probably is an implementation bug
of some sort.

> So why the hesitation of
> changing it?

someone has to actually fix and test the code  :-)

I, for one, don't have the time at the moment....

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