Re: Sorting large file

Hi Leif,

The efficiency of a particular sorting algorithm is very dependent upon how
sorted the data is. With ten million records I imagine that might be hard to
determine. FMTDTA is generally pretty good though if you need the records
physically in the sorted sequence. Creating a key would probably be faster
if you don't.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax


----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: "List Midrange" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 12:11 PM
Subject: Sorting large file


> Folks,
>
> I have a sequential file of 10,000,000 80-character text records.
> How do I sort the file the most efficiently?
>
> Leif
>
>
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