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This pertains to GNU sort from GNU textutils 1.3, compiled with GNU C
1.40 under COFF encapsulation on this 386/ix 2.0.2 system, waiting for
Hurd to be available :-).  The documentation says:

     Finally, as a last resort when all keys compare equal (or if no
     ordering options were specified at all), sort compares the lines
     byte by byte in machine collating sequence.  The -s option
     disables this last resort comparison, producing a stable sort.

So, a mere `sort -s FILE' should behave the same as `cat FILE'.  But:

	~/8c) { echo b; echo a } | sort -s
	a
	b
	~/8c) type sort
	sort is hashed (/usr/local/gnubin/sort)
	~/8c) grep ersion /usr/local/gnubin/sort
	GNU textutils version 1.3
	~/8c) 

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