Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!t-rayc
From: t-rayc@microsoft.UUCP (Raymond CHEN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: sorting multiple-line records
Message-ID: <55708@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 90 22:30:32 GMT
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Somebody else mentioned awk.  You might also want to consider 
Larry Wall's perl program, though it might be overkill for
this particular task.  It is distributed under the GNU guidelines,
and Diomidis Spinellis (dds@cc.ic.ac.uk) ported it to MS-DOS.

PD1:<MSDOS.PERL>PERL3.ZIP on SIMTEL20.

With perl, your task becomes a one-liner, assuming, say, that
records are separated by a blank line.

	perl -e "$/='';print sort <STDIN>;" <infile >outfile