sort (textutils) 2.0.21 behavior different when using a path

Dear Kind GNU Programmers,

First, thank you for all the fine gnu software, which I use to good effect
every day.

Also, I often use sort (textutils) 2.0.21 on the windows 2000 platform, and was
today surprised by this behavior:


It works the way I expect if I use this command line:

sort fil  > fil2

The output file (fil2) has each line terminated with 0D 0A (= cr lf )


But if I use this command line:

sort d:\fil  > fil2

The output file (fil2) has each line terminated with 0D 0D 0A (= cr cr lf )


The bad behaviour also appears if I use a relative path, like ".\fil"
My input file (fil) has each line terminated by 0D 0A (= cr lf )


Thanks,

Dave

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