sort feature (can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet)

hey all,

I'm sure this is a documentation bug.. there's no way possible that this could
not have been implemented yet. 

I want to sort a record which has a delimiter other than a newline (its a data file
with a delimiter of '\<newline>' because the data itself has newlines in it).

So how do you do this? I see the '-z' option, but I would think there would be a 
generic line separator option like there was a field separator option.

Is this there, or was this truly an oversight?

Ed