Re: Sorting large file

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

> Try this idea.
> write a program to perform your write-shift-write-shift-...
and new ones inserted.
> 
> Making it a little fancier,
> 
> Output two files, the one above in plain text but shifted and a second one
> where the words are rewritten into letter-number format to match even with
> spelling errors.  I haven't written one of those for a long time.  I don't
> remember the name anymore.  It was used by airlines to find people's names
> in their reservation systems.

I did something like this 20 years ago, when I wrote the software
for Michigan Bell, New York Telephone, and the Defense Telephone
Service (used in the Pentagon - 19,000 phones in that one building)
to computerize their Directory Assistance service. But now we ARE
getting fancy...




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