On Fri, 18 Dec 2015, gregrwm wrote:
> it may well be that sort behaves in accordance with the definition, if
> so i say the definition has a bug. "a" should not preceed null.
What it said was that when the extension begins with a number, as in .7z
or .9 (which was your example), then there is no definition.
I agree that seems ridiculous. It obviously is doing something and what
it is doing makes no sense to me. Why should -V give unpredictable
results under any conditions? Apparently, that was their plan. If you
write to the developers, let us know what they say.
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Mike