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From: Ken.Akridge@f1999.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Akridge)
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Subject: Btree Filer BIGSORT setup
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Date: 4 Jan 91 11:04:41 GMT
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Would someone explain how to set up Bigsort ?  I have a filwith over 50,000 
lines that looks like this:
  
77388 Houston TX
36330nterprise AL
...
...
 
I ran bigsort on it on and the program created 50 or so files each 78K in 
length and promply ran out of disk space.  I examined the contents of the 
newly created temp files and found them to be mostly blank spaces.  What is 
MSORT doing here...and how can I set this thing up in a way so that I don't 
run out of disk space ?
  
                          thanks...ken