That sounds like an interesting way of doing it (easier than seven temp files)

<snip>
> I write out the subfile to a work file in qtemp,
> which has the same fields with one extra "KEY" field.  I load the sorted
> columns data into both the matching field and the "KEY" field, then reload
> the subfile from the indexed work file in QTEMP.    
<snip>

What if some of the subfile columns are numeric, some are alpha, and
some are dates?  Could you create one key field that could be loaded
with all of these data types?


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