Re: Sorting large file -- MIDRANGE-L

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Al Barsa, Jr. <barsa2@ibm.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: Sorting large file


> At 02:11 PM 10/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Folks,
> >
> >I have a sequential file of 10,000,000 80-character text records.
> >How do I sort the file the most efficiently?
> You could copy it to a file that it one giant key.  I would suggest a 
> mother @#$%er system with a lot of main storage and disk arms.
> 

Anything better? That solution will take a long time...

COBOL experts on the list? SORT verb in COBOL?


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