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From: jludwig@pro-grouch.cts.com (Jerry Ludwig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Sorting anything with qsort
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Date: 24 Mar 91 12:36:06 GMT
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   Recently, (friday, that is) I finished my first program that sort using
qsort.  The problem with sorting ANYTHING with qsort is that it wants an
array.  I had to sort records in a file.  Another problem is that qsort
takes only an unsigned int as the number of arguements and the files I had
to sort could easily be multiple megs (a record was only 14 bytes).     Now
all of this was solved easily using multiple qsorts on records read into
a huge array and then merging the qsorts into the final file. But qsort is
not an end all for sorting ANYTHING by any stretch of the imagination. 
qsort is a big help on almost all fixed size elements.
                        Your friendly Windows developer,
                            Jerry.
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