Did the options for the Unix sort command change?

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Did the options for the Unix sort command change?

From:	Michael Alston
Subject:	Did the options for the Unix sort command change?
Date:	Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:42:17 -0700

Question:

Did the options for the Unix sort command change?

Why does:

   % sort -5 myfile 

no longer sort myfile by keying off of column 5?

Thx,
MikeA

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