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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: binary file sort
Message-ID: <11653@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Nov 89 08:50:51 GMT
References: <4463@blake.acs.washington.edu> <11605@smoke.BRL.MIL> <214@isgtec.UUCP> <2742@munnari.oz.au> <11643@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1024.2566d7c3@csc.anu.oz>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1024.2566d7c3@csc.anu.oz> bdm659@csc.anu.oz writes:
>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.

I've got code for a specialized version that shouldn't be too hard to
turn into a general-purpose one.  If somebody would like to attempt
the conversion, contact me and I'll send you a copy.