From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: sorting large numbers of large records
Date: 29 Jul 2003 09:30:51 -0500
Date: 2003-07-29T09:30:51-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41Xlb56gn5gm@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bg5rol$rnp$1@grapevine.wam.umd.edu
In article <bg5rol$rnp$1@grapevine.wam.umd.edu>, "Brien L. Christesen" <blchrist@rac1.wam.umd.edu> writes:
> That is a good point, and I looked into the unix sort command. The only
> problem is that as far as I can tell, that only sorts text files. I have
> a file of binary records, so I have no idea how I could use a system sort
> command to do it. Is there any way that would work?
Even the complex Sort Specification format on VMS does not provide for
sorting based on non-ascii fields. To use the built-in VMS sort facility
on non-ascii fields, you have to use the Callable Sort entrypoints, giving
your own User Compare routine.
Perhaps the same thing is true on one or more flavors of Unix.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-29 13:10 sorting large numbers of large records Brien L. Christesen
2003-07-29 14:30 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2003-07-30 0:32 ` Keith Thompson
2003-07-30 1:53 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-07-30 14:55 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-07-30 16:41 ` Chad R. Meiners
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2003-07-28 15:29 Brien L. Christesen
2003-07-28 15:35 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-07-31 15:22 ` Brien L. Christesen
2003-07-28 16:25 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-07-28 20:30 ` John R. Strohm
2003-07-28 20:52 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-07-28 23:47 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-07-28 23:33 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-07-28 23:43 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-07-29 0:42 ` John Cupak
2003-07-29 3:38 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-07-29 8:32 ` Preben Randhol
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