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to: RON MCLEOD
from: JIM WELLER
date: 1995-09-29 23:20:00
subject: Bad sort routines

On (22 Sep 95) George De Bruin wrote to Ron Mcleod...
 > RM>  I cannot get TSE/Jr/OS/2 to sort without duplicating lines.  In
 > RM>  sorting a 300K file, it fails to rid itself of duplicates.
 GD> Reading your above message more closely, it seems that you want Jr to
 GD> *remove* duplicate lines for you.  This is not something that Jr has
 GD> ever done.  If there are duplicate lines in the file when Jr starts
 GD> sorting, it leaves them there.
If you want to remove dups after sorting look for a freeware program
on many boards called UNIQ:
NAME
  uniq - remove or report adjacent duplicate lines
                          ^^^^^^^^
AUTHOR
  Jason Mathews
  NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
  Code 633.2
  Greenbelt, Maryland  20771
  
... DERE M1CROSOFT: SEND W1N 95. T1RED OF BE1NG AOL LAMER!!! SINSERELY.
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