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to: Jack Stein
from: Peter Knapper
date: 1999-08-28 22:58:00
subject: A BIG sort...

Hi Jack,


 MR> 32-Bit BIGsort V4.4(C)1988-93 Turgut 
 MR> Kalfaoglu,1378 Sok.8/10,Izmir,Turkey
 MR> That's what I have here.  It's almost certainly available on Hobbes.

 PK> How about that, grabbed it from one of my copies of
 PK> Hobbes.......;-) No matter how I do a search, I always seem
 PK> to find the 9999th way of wording something and completely
 PK> miss the target..........;-(

 JS> Let me know how that one works... it never worked at 
 JS> all here, or very poorly. I deleted it from my system 
 JS> several years ago, perhaps an early version?

It appears there were 2 versions released fairly close together, 4.2 and 4.4,
about 2 months apart. A quick test with 4.4 shows that its syntax is identical 
to standard SORT and it worked fine on my one test. More testing is needed to
check it out fully. 

Regards.......pk.


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