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Mention that both Jay Soffian and Charles Randall wrote early versions
authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:43:36 +0000 (00:43 +0100)
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:43:36 +0000 (00:43 +0100)
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