minix man page for psort

PSORT(1)						      General Commands Manual							  PSORT(1)

NAME

       psort - sort primitives in metafile as requested

SYNOPSIS

       psort [ +/-x ][ +/-y ][ +/-X ][ +/-Y ] file ..

DESCRIPTION

       Psort  reads each metafile file in sequence and sorts primitives between globals according to the option specification.	Lower case options
       mean the corresponding minimum, upper case indicates the maximum value.	A '+' before the option means sort in order of increasing  values,
       '-'  means  decreasing.	The order the options appear on the command line is the order in which the extrema are examined.  For example, the
       options -Y +x would mean "sort on decreasing ymax, then increasing xmin values".

       If no input files are specified, the standard input is read.

EXAMPLE

       To sort the file "meta" in order of increasing xmax, then decreasing ymin:

	 psort +X -y meta

FILES

       /tmp/psXXXXa /tmp/psXXXXb

BUGS

       Aborting the program will sometimes leave files in /tmp.

AUTHOR

       Greg Ward

SEE ALSO

       metafile(5), pexpand(1)

RADIANCE
							      6/24/98								  PSORT(1)