On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mike Westall wrote: >The file fack.0-1.dif is an ASCII text file of 54,853 lines >with 4 columns of numeric data. I noticed very slow performance >when trying to sort on a RH9.0 system:
Stop right there - Unicode problems. See: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-083.html And the changelogs in: ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/grep-2.5.1-7.8.i386.rpm ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/grep-2.5.1-29.src.rpm Cheers, Phil P.S. grep is not a coreutil, BTW _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
