From: utzoo!decvax!cca!gwyn@Brl@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: System III sort bug
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3219
Posted: Fri Sep 10 22:59:13 1982
Received: Sun Sep 12 02:44:18 1982

From:     Doug Gwyn 
Date:     9 Sep 82 1:14:05-EDT (Thu)
The UNIX System III "sort" program does not handle the -b flag correctly.
In function skip(), the line
	if(tabchar==0&&fp->bflg[j])
should be changed to read
	if(tabchar==0||fp->bflg[j])

One more counter-example to taking the distributed code as the "standard",
as suggested at the last USENIX conference.

I suspect that this bug lurks in other flavors of UNIX also.