Ron Mcleod wrote in a message to Jack Stein:
 RM> Jack Stein writes to Ron Mcleod about Sort problem: 
 JS> eliminates duplicate lines.  Also have a DOS sort utility that does
 JS> the same.  The OS/2?Unix utilities are in GNUTUTIL.ZIP (GNU textutils
 JS> 1.9) and are very good, also the DOS sort is SORT03.zip, also good.
 JS> Exactly what are you doing that's broke, I'll see if I can duplicate
 JS> it here.
  
 RM>     Thanks for that, I'll see if I can freq them locally.  I
 RM> haven't had a problem sorting with TSE (Qedit) before.  I
 RM> used the first 15 characters to attempt sorting a tagline
 RM> file of 455317k.  The result was a file (get this) of
 RM> 455413k - with all 9388 lines duplicated!  Word wrap is off.
 RM>  Double lines but the same size file?
Hmmm, really strange... reminds me of a "Blivit", which is 2 pounds of sh*t 
in a 1 pound bag:-).  I don't see how you can double the contents of a file 
and not double the file size... something is screwy.  I'll try sorting the 
nodelist when I get home, its the only file I can think of that really big.
 JS> BTW, BOXER has a very good native OS/2 text editor, not TSE but
 JS> excellent none-the-less.  You might want to give it a look-see while
 JS> semware is working on the (yuck) Win version. (What would WIN users do
 JS> with a "text" editor anyway:-)
 RM>     Thanks for the tip, I'll take another look, but my
 RM> initial impression was that I found Boxer awfully big and
 RM> clutzy.  I love the spell checker in TSE and its clean,
 RM> uncluttered interface.
Trust me, I like TSE (pro) a lot, but BOXER has a keypad for Qedit, so it 
works almost exactly as QEDIT.  What I like most about it, besides the OS/2 
version, is the color syntax highlighting for programing... I know, TSE has 
it too, but thats DOS.
                                              Jack 
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