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Subject: sorting large numbers of large records
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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?

thanks for the feedback!
Brien