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Info file sort.info, produced by Makeinfo, -*- Text -*- from input
file sort.tex.
This file documents the MS-DOS port of the GNU sort utility.
Copyright (C) 1990 Thorsten Ohl, <td12@ddagsi3.bitnet> $Header:
e:/gnu/sort/RCS/sort.t'v 0.1 90/08/26 19:00:07 tho Exp $
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also
that the section entitled ``GNU General Public License'' is included
exactly as in the original, and provided that the entire resulting
derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice
identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
versions, except that the text of the translations of the section
entitled ``GNU General Public License'' must be approved for accuracy
by the Foundation.
File: sort.info, Node: Top, Up: (Dir)
* Menu:
* Copying:: Legal matters.
* Introduction:: Generalilties.
* Installation:: How to make GNU `sort'.
* Options:: How to tell `sort' how to sort ...
* MS-DOS:: How the MS-DOS version differs.
File: sort.info, Node: Copying, Next: Introduction, Up: Top
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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Version 1, February 1989
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Preamble
=========
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