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Subject: RE: dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 23:16:00 -0000
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Andrew Cagney wrote:

...

> cagney@nettle$ sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n x

...

> I'm not sure I understand the problem, dot is a field separator rather=20
> than decimal place.

That would be fine if commonplace sorts obeyed that logic.
The most common sort in my world is /bin/ls which fails to
conform.  Any scheme is which lexical sorting produced a
correct result would be preferable.

/john