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to: JACK STEIN
from: RON MCLEOD
date: 1995-09-20 07:26:00
subject: Sort problem

Jack Stein writes to Ron Mcleod about Sort problem: 
 JS> Ok, I created a 10,000+ line file from the nodediff, loaded it into
 JS> TSE pro, marked the 1st 15 columns and did a sort, it bombed, had to
 JS> kill the dos session.  It didn't get far enough along to see if it
 JS> made dupe lines.  
 JS> I sorted the whole line with SORT03 for DOS in 7+ seconds, 6+ seconds
 JS> with  SORT1.9 for OS/2.  Then I loaded the file into BOXER for OS/2,
 JS> marked and sorted, and it worked, fast too.   
 JS> Seems TSE might have a problem there.  The file was 10900 lines,
 JS> 326,089k.  I'd say DOS had a problem, but SORT03 is a DOS program, and
 JS> it had no problem. 
    I cannot get TSE/Jr/OS/2 to sort without duplicating lines.  In
sorting a 300K file, it fails to rid itself of duplicates.  I'm going to
forward this info to George De Bruin of SemWare for attention.
... A gourmet thinking calories is a tart looking at a clock.
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