On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:39:45PM -0800, Dan Quinlan wrote:
> I propose we use GNU sort (which has the same sorting order as any old
> sort(1) program) to sort the MANIFEST and only that program to sort the
> manifest.
> 
> It was sorted this way before, but anytime someone sorts it in their
> editor, it always has some difference (basically: line length
> differences and case-insensitivity).

As an FYI, the sort I used was:

$ echo LANG
en_US
$ sort --version
sort (coreutils) 4.5.3
Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.

Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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It's the standard setup that comes with RH Linux.

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