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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)