Re: Sorting large file

"Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org> on 10/04/2000 02:11:29 PM

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cc:    (bcc: Arlene M Soderlund/NFCNA.COM)
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




I do not know if it is efficient or not, in the past on a smaller record count
text file, maybe 1/2 million records. I put a *rebld logical that sub-stringed
out the "KEY" fields for the sort.  Then I reorganized the Physical file by that
logical, that was 6 years ago.  It took a month of printed Invoices to a file to
be Microfiched.







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