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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:03:17 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:

> You could write a small script fragment that would walk PATH, look for a 
> version of `sort' that understood some specific option (e.g., --help), 
> and invoke that one explicitly, or barf if not found.

That kind of thing strikes me as being fragile.

Wouldn't it be easier to have a configuration variable
(`cvs-sort-program' or something) and have the user configure it if
needed?

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