DOS 5.0 sort.exe

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From: awol
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 20:30

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If your new copy of DOS 5.0 is like the one I looked at, then sort.exe
will hang your system! I understand this was a problem in a recent beta
version also! Anyway, a quick fix, if you regularly use sort, is to get
the sort.exe from your older version of DOS (in my case Compaq DOS
3.31), and then run SETVER to tell sort (the old one) that it is running
under the appropriate version of dos. In my case I ran:
'setver c: sort.exe 3.31'
I don't knkow why a bad version of sort was released, but at least you
can get around it easily enough.

+------------------------+----------------------------+
|   Al Oomens (awol)     | If you can't make it GOOD, |
| awol@syzzle.chi.il.us  | then make it BIG!!!        |
+------------------------+----------------------------+

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Subject: DOS 5.0 sort.exe
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Date: 13 Jun 91 20:30:57 GMT
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