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Date:	Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:33:45 +0200 (EET)
From:	Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Sender:	peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	A bug in sort
Message-ID:	<Pine.OSF.4.20.0002020907150.3116-100000@sirppi.helsinki.fi>
MIME-Version:	1.0
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

When I tried to sort a large text file (djgppfaq.txt is a good test case),
I was surprised to find that sort (from txt20b.zip) complained that a
temporary file already existed.  Looking at the source, I discovered that
sort divides any input file to chunks of up to 512 kilobytes, and wants to
open a temporary file for each of them.  Unfortunately, even though sort.c
does have code to get several independent temporary filenames even on DOS
8+3 filesystems, it never gets to execute, because the macro HAVE_PATHCONF
is not defined anywhere.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/

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