Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!carssdf!usenet
From: usenet@carssdf.UUCP (UseNet Id.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: sort on Xenix 386 large model ?
Keywords: sort
Message-ID: <186@carssdf.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 89 22:17:33 GMT
Organization: C.A.R.S.,Middlesex,NJ
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Can anyone tell me if, under the 386 version of xenix the sort has been
improved to use a sort work area larger than 32K, and to open serveral
dozen of it's temp files simultaneously for input durring it's merge phase.

I am thinking about purchasing SCO Xenix 386 for my system, which includes
a SCSI disk from Texas Inst if that makes any difference.  (They call it
the model 1300).  I wonder if I should wait for more improvements, because
purchasing a new O/S seems to be the only way to get all the updates.
Getting updates from SCO has been a problem of hide and seek.  If I can
tell them what I need, I may be able to stumble on to a fix that they already
have, but there seems to be no catalog of "fixes" that might help.  Pardon
me venting my frustration, but I can't aford to spend $1200 every year, and
this is very much like waiting for the stock market to peak out!

John Watson  an independent programmer       rutgers!carssdf!usenet