sort with a tab as separator

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <3947 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
->If your shell munges tabs into spaces, try "sort -t'\08'" -- I just
->tried it successfully on a Pyramid in the AT&T universe.  Your
->mileage may vary, of course.
-What sort of shell are you using? Did Pyramid "improve" the shell by
-adding this, or are you running some shell "improved" by somebody else?

Some "improvement" that would be, changing an 8 to a 9.