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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-03-10 00:43:36 +0100
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-03-10 00:43:36 +0100
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Mention that both Jay Soffian and Charles Randall wrote early versions
of sort's temp-file-compression code.
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Use reap_some.
(avoid_trashing_input, merge, sort, main): Adapt to mergefps.
+ The idea of compressing sorts temporary files was first
+ suggested/implemented by Jay Soffian in 1998, and again
+ by Charles Randall in 2001.
+
2007-01-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* tests/misc/pwd-long: Work properly even when run from the