bug#5944: sort with option +4nr does not work now and it used to do it some time ago

[Martinez, Abel]

Hi CoreUtil/SORT developer team:

Long time ago I used cygwing to sort file's content by the text
available on its 4th column in reverse order (under bash) using ___$sort
+4nr file.txt____ .

I have tried now same function with the latest cygwing and coreutils
sorting package (sort.exe 19-March-2010) and with those options does not
work; It says:
        $ sort +4nr ACCESS.txt
        sort: open failed: +4nr: No such file or directory

(I don't have the info on what old version was working fine, sorry)

Thanks in advance for really grate product

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