WM>  JB> A trivial C program outpreforms the MS sort by a factor of 30 on
WM> 4000  JB> lines. and by a factor of 6 on 1000 lines.
WM>
WM> But are the programs functionally equivalent?

almost...

I left out the "start a column number" command line arg. oops.

the MS one being bubblesort would retain the order of "identical" lines
my qsort doesn't.

adding those features wouldn't slow it down much, although, it'd no longer be
as trivial. (probably take 5-10 lines of code)

Adding the bug that I just found could be harder... consecutice runs of the
dos sort prog produced different (and incorrect) output.... wierd!

                        

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