Re: sort 2.0e possible problem

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the report.
Would you please try with the latest test release?

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.14.tar.gz

"Greg Rodgers" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think that I have a unique situation and possibly a bug concerning the
> sort 2.0e written by Mike Haetel and distributed with Redhat 7.0.  Sorting
> a 899MB text zone file finished easily in around 45 minutes on a RedHat 6.2
> system using the sort 2.0a utility. On a much larger system running sort
> 2.0e,
> it never finishes, the process ran for a 24 hour period before being
> stopped.
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