RE: Sorting large file

Does it not work anymore - software rot?  What fancy thing do you plan to
do?

Richard Jackson
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-|From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
-|[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Leif Svalgaard
-|Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:43 AM
-|To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
-|Subject: Re: Sorting large file
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-|> Try this idea.
-|> write a program to perform your write-shift-write-shift-...
-|and new ones inserted.
-|>
-|> Making it a little fancier,
-|>
-|> Output two files, the one above in plain text but shifted and a
-|second one
-|> where the words are rewritten into letter-number format to
-|match even with
-|> spelling errors.  I haven't written one of those for a long
-|time.  I don't
-|> remember the name anymore.  It was used by airlines to find
-|people's names
-|> in their reservation systems.
-|
-|I did something like this 20 years ago, when I wrote the software
-|for Michigan Bell, New York Telephone, and the Defense Telephone
-|Service (used in the Pentagon - 19,000 phones in that one building)
-|to computerize their Directory Assistance service. But now we ARE
-|getting fancy...
-|
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