Jonathan De Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 JS> Actually, I don't think the gnu sort uses the "/" as a switch at all, 
 JS> just the "-" as a switch symbol.  So it's -r not /r.  Total
 JS> incompatability...  At any rate, I'd highly recommend the gnu sort 
 JS> and delete the IBM/MS SORT.  He could use SED to go though all his 
 JS> scripts to change sort /r's or /+n's to -r's and +n's...

 JDBP> ... or if he cannot do that, and *requires* command-line
 JDBP> compatibility, there's always the OS2CLU SORT, which is
 JDBP> command-line compatible with the IBM SORT, 32-bit instead of
 JDBP> 16-bit, capable of handling files up to the limit of
 JDBP> available virtual memory rather than up to a mere 64KiB, and
 JDBP> faster than the IBM SORT as well.

Yes, OS2CLU is a very nice package Johnathan, you do nice work.  I'm a little
behind in my mail (got about 100 messages in OS2CLU in a few days?)  I know
you are about ready to release the OS2CLU02 soon, make sure you mention it's
release here.  
                                              Jack 
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