Sort feature ?

[derrick burns]

There appears to be a bug with sort in its treatment of field
delimiters.  For example:

	sort -t/ <<!
	abc/
	abc,/
	abc /
	!

Produces:

	abc /
	abc,/
	abc/

The reason is that sort considers the delimiter as a field terminator
and not as a field separator.  Does anyone have a fix for this
feature (bug)?  Also, does anyone have a copy of John Linderman's
sort which allows arbitrary length lines (up to the available memory)?