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diff --git a/old/textutils/ChangeLog b/old/textutils/ChangeLog
index 45c3a5e6033080b89cfa3d93a5a2ef6676146c05..7cac0608c459244f5f24b3d55d417bcf7860bfc2 100644 (file)
--- a/old/textutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/old/textutils/ChangeLog
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Sun Nov 24 21:02:15 1996  Jim Meyering  <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
 
        * src/sort.c (set_ordering): Revert 1994-05-04 change to this function
        so that blanks are not unconditionally ignored when computing start
-       and end positions for numeric keys.  Reported by Markus Demleitner.
+       and end positions for numeric keys with explicit character offsets.
+       Reported by Markus Demleitner.
 
 Sat Nov 23 16:07:08 1996  Jim Meyering  <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
 

diff --git a/old/textutils/NEWS b/old/textutils/NEWS
index 04db13c586231c945d80d2603eb7d16ed62b4192..899299799227983f54f24d1a5ac826dc5e911b73 100644 (file)
--- a/old/textutils/NEWS
+++ b/old/textutils/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Changes in release 1.20
  Changes in test release 1.19r
+* sort no longer improperly ignores blanks in determining starting and ending
+  positions for keys with explicit character offsets
 * fix bug in csplit with regexp and negative offset that led to infinite loop
  Changes in test release 1.19q
 * fix bug in sort -c that sometimes resulted in a segfault