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On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> I don't entirely like, though, the requeriment that the unix-compatible
> sort be found on the PATH before any system one... I like to put
> c:\bin\cygwin\bin, c:\bin\mingw\bin and the like *after*
> c:\winnt\system32, c:\winnt, etc. and wouldn't like to be forced to
> change that just to use rcs2log...

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.