# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 949329412 0
# Node ID 6dfbe51978434ea9bae9c3807215300793fa264d
# Parent  ada257a7df9faf3472ed9f4313987fe1808a4e44
A typo ("ocatal" instead of "octal").

diff -r ada257a7df9f -r 6dfbe5197843 etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Mon Jan 31 14:24:19 2000 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Mon Jan 31 14:36:52 2000 +0000
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@
 ** Changes in sort.el
 
 The function sort-numeric-fields interprets numbers starting with `0'
-as ocatal and numbers starting with `0x' or `0X' as hexadecimal.  The
+as octal and numbers starting with `0x' or `0X' as hexadecimal.  The
 new user-option sort-numberic-base can be used to specify a default
 numeric base.