document -T and TMPDIR handling

resurrect ENVIRONMENT and FILES, adjust to be more correct
slighly adjust SYNOPSIS line, so that it looks little nicer :)
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.\" $NetBSD: sort.1,v 1.13 2001/02/07 21:13:36 jdolecek Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: sort.1,v 1.14 2001/02/19 16:27:04 jdolecek Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.Fl k
.Ar field1 Ns Op Li \&, Ns Ar field2
.Oc
.Ar ...
.Op Fl T Ar dir
.Op Fl o Ar output
.Op Ar file
.Ar ...
.Op Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
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be used instead of the standard output.
This file
can be the same as one of the input files.
.It Fl T Ar dir
Use
.Ar dir
as the directory for temporary files. The default is the
value specified in the environment variable
.Ev TMPDIR or
.Pa /tmp
if
.Ev TMPDIR
is not defined.
.It Fl u
Unique: suppress all but one in each set of lines
having equal keys.
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.It 2
an error occurred.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by
.Nm "" .
.Bl -tag -width Ev
.It Ev TMPDIR
.Nm
uses the contents of the
.Ev TMPDIR
environment variable as the path in which to store
temporary files.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width outputNUMBER+some -compact
.It Pa /tmp/sort.*
Default temporary files.
.It Pa Ar output Ns NUMBER
Temporary file which is used for output if
.Ar output
already exists. Once sorting is finished, this file
replaces
.Ar output
(via
.Xr link 2
and
.Xr unlink 2 ).
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr comm 1 ,
.Xr uniq 1 ,