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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Multiple Field Sorts in UNIX(tm)
Message-ID: <6153@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 01:55:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 23 01:55:19 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
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In article <7651@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
-In article <758@custom.UUCP> boykin@custom.UUCP (Joseph Boykin) writes:
->UNIX Sort (as well as our own PC/SORT) allows you to do exactly what you
->want.
- ... unless you need a numeric sort on one field but an alphabetical
-sorts on another, or if any of the other global sort flags conflict
-for two fields.

I don't see what the problem is.  The bdinr flags are specifiable
per-field as well as globally.