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From: bdm659@csc.anu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: binary file sort (Was Re: compare strings, srcmp)
Message-ID: <1024.2566d7c3@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 19 Nov 89 16:41:39 GMT
References: <4463@blake.acs.washington.edu> <11605@smoke.BRL.MIL> <214@isgtec.UUCP> <2742@munnari.oz.au> <11643@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <11643@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> ... too bad a comparable binary-record sort
> utility isn't a standard UNIX utility ...

Hear, hear.  Does anyone know of an efficient easily-obtainable binary file
sort utility for UNIX?  (BSD, preferably.)  It would need to at least be
able to sort logical records of fixed length according to specified fields
in the records.   Thanks.

Brendan McKay.  bdm@anucsd.oz or bdm@anucsd.oz.au or bdm659@csc1.anu.oz.au