sort (GNU textutils) 2.0

[Bill Unruh]

Sort appears to have been created with the -f option as the default on
later versions of Linux.
Since there is no way to switch this off however, this is not a great
default


On sort in Mandrake 7.2 and 7.1

echo "Able
>baker
>Charlie"|sort
Able
baker
Charlie

On Mandrake 6.1 and Sun 4.1.3
echo "Able
baker
Charlie"|sort
Able
Charlie
baker


Note that this appears to be some weird interaction between sort and the
rest of the OS as if I transfer the binary from the 6.1 machine to the
7.2, then that binary behaves like the 7.2 version does.

Further experiment says that it is something to do with the LC_COLLATE
file, as if this is removed sort behaves properly.


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