gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (01/10/86)
The "UNIX System V - Release 2.0 User Reference Manual DEC Processors", 307-109 Issue 2 (April 1984) SORT(1) entry says "The notation +pos1 -pos2 restricts a sort key to one beginning at pos1 and ending at pos2. The characters at positions pos1 and pos2 are included in the sort key." This is RONG. The character at pos2 is not included in the sort key. The SVR1 and 8th Edition UNIX manuals have this right. I just examined the SVR2 source code to make sure and ran some test cases. One wonders why the correct description was changed.