From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:43:36 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Mention that both Jay Soffian and Charles Randall wrote early versions
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Mention that both Jay Soffian and Charles Randall wrote early versions
of sort's temp-file-compression code.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 51aa040189..88700563d6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -558,6 +558,10 @@
 	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