On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, BOB KLAHN wrote to ED VANCE:


 EV> My Tagline file is over 5300 lines now and is 270KB in size.
 BK>  ...
 EV> I've learned by reading SORT /? that it has a limit of
 EV> 65535 Bytes file size, so I can't use it.
 BK>  ...
 EV> message I decded to go ahead and ask anyway to learn
 EV> what some of the folks here do to sort something as
 EV> large as my Tagline file.

 BK>  I usually split it up, I use either Ztree, or List.com.

 BK>  However... 270KB taglist? Dang!

one of my tagline files has only a measley 10160 taglines in it...

 ALLTAGS .TXT    543663 05/12/2013 19:17 A---

yeah, it is a small one and no dupes either ;)

when i update it, i pop it over to one of the *nix boxen and use this
command on it...

sort filename | uniq > sortedfilename

then pop sortedfilename back over to my original box and name it accordingly ;)

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