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From: Wes Peters <wes@dayna.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX Sort Source code
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:44:21 -0700
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Stephan Forth wrote:
> 
> Ian Pitt (ian.pitt@btinternet.com) wrote:
> : Anyone know where I can get a copy of the source code for the 'sort'
> : utility. Better still, what about a readycompiled version for NT??
> 
> Look for the MKS Toolkit (commercial). It includes a few hundred
> Unix-like-commands for NT.

Why waste your money.  The MKS tools are nice, but you can get most of
the GNU tools precompiled for NT from the University of Washington.
I think the address is ftp.cac.washington.edu or something like that.
Yahoo or Alta Vista can probably help.  (They even have emacs!)

-- 
Wes Peters                          It was a diamond as big as the Ritz
Software Engineer                  What you gonna do with this, tell me
Dayna Communications        Who's gonna save you when you're a slave to
                                           A diamond as big as the Ritz