Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/sort

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, David Laight wrote:
> I'm looking at fixing the 'sort -n' fubars, but this code is an
> inpeneterable mess - which needs some fixing first!

Heh.  I fixed many sort -n problems some years ago, but the absence
of test cases has prevented me from committing.  My changes include a
comment block explaining the weird and inconsistent encoding scheme.
See <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/apb/sort.20070822.diff>.

--apb (Alan Barrett)