Hi Jack,

 JT> The sort utility that comes with the GNU text utilities package 
 JT> can readily sort multi-megabyte size files.  

 PK> I have that but as you say, its commandline syntax is very
 PK> different to the standard SORT so I am looking for other
 PK> alternatives. BIGSORT seems to be a good candidate at the
 PK> moment.

 JS> I have never used the original OS/2 sort, but I have 
 JS> sortorg.exe I renamed here, and it shows only a /R for 
 JS> reverse, and +n for the column?

The one situation I was wanting a replacement, the SORT commandline was
generated by another application so I did not have the option of converting
the parameters to the different format without some trikery. I also remember
there were other subtle differences such as explicit column numbering started
from 0 (GNU) instead of 1 (default sort), although you could specify a
different base if wanted. By default it also seemed to handle data values as
WORDS. To get plain column based sorting required explicit range specification 
as such. I found the differences annoying to me at the time, although I could
see how they could be useful for other tasks. 

Cheers..........pk.


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