*** Answering a msg posted in area Personal (Mail to the Great One).
Hello Bill!
Wednesday April 08 1998 11:48, Bill Birrell wrote to Sean Rima:
 >> Thanks Bill, will try that. It was staring me in the
 >> face all the time
 BB>     It always is, Sean. Often just asking the question is enough to
 BB> trigger the answer. You have to organise your thoughts properly to
 BB> even ask. :-) I hope it all works for you. I published a variety of
 BB> shellsort a couple of days ago. The only problem I can see with that
 BB> is converting the node numbers into proper ints or longs. I leave you
 BB> with that exerecise, as Dennis Ritchie is so fond of saying. :-)
I think the old gray cells are not functioning too well these days but I do 
get there in time. With all the help I got here, there are a lot of happy 
people in R50 :) I stopped programming for a number of years and then jumped 
back in.
The converting was no major problem as the file I was reading stores the 
zones, nets etc as Long anyway, but it was too easy that was the problem. 
Looked for a complicated solution to a simple question.
Sean
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