following up a message from Jack Stein to Ron Mcleod:
 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?
 JS> when I get home, its the only file I can think of that
 JS> really big. 
Ok, I created a 10,000+ line file from the nodediff, loaded it into TSE pro, 
marked the 1st 15 columns and did a sort, it bombed, had to kill the dos 
session.  It didn't get far enough along to see if it made dupe lines. 
I sorted the whole line with SORT03 for DOS in 7+ seconds, 6+ seconds with  
SORT1.9 for OS/2.  Then I loaded the file into BOXER for OS/2, marked and 
sorted, and it worked, fast too.  
Seems TSE might have a problem there.  The file was 10900 lines, 326,089k.  
I'd say DOS had a problem, but SORT03 is a DOS program, and it had no 
oblem.
                                              Jack 
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Hello George!
Congratulations with your new product! Especially the fact that I can 
use TSE with the standard input is a feature that was wanted for a long 
time...
But as OS/2 user I'am heavily disappointed that I'am still do not have 
the opportunity to lock files, allthough you've added this feature to 
the multi-user version... But that you've never mentioned here and even 
in "Side Lines" there was no word about this! Is it possible to turn the 
single-user version in for a single copy of the multi-user version?
Another disappointment was the lack of a good manual... The suplement 
you've given us is in my opinion a devaluation of the total package...
Just thoughts from a happy TSE-user....
Your sincerely,
            Henk
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