Re: Sorting large file

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

questions: big key or little key?
sorting on one area of file (like bytes 12-22) or multiple areas?
interactive or batch process?
what is max time that you could live with?
one time run, daily, hourly,??????
jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: "List Midrange" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:11 PM
Subject: Sorting large file


> Folks,
>
> I have a sequential file of 10,000,000 80-character text records.
> How do I sort the file the most efficiently?
>
> Leif
>
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