SAMPLE SORT command results    | Comments about the output

  SORT                           In this example, "Its now 1 AM.Ctrl-Z" was
  Its                            typed in, one word on a line, pressing Enter
  now                            after each word. The Ctrl-Z told SORT that
  1                              you were done entering the input. SORT then
  AM.                            proceeded to display the sorted output on the
  Ctrl-Z                         screen, one line at a time. If SORT/R had
1                                been used, instead of SORT, the output would
AM.                              have been displayed in the reverse order, 
Its                              with "now" as the first line.
now

  SORT/R <TEXTFILE.TXT           This reads input from TEXTFILE.TXT, which
This is line 3                   contains three lines of text, sorts them in
This is line 2                   reverse alphanumeric order and displays the
This is line 1                   results on the screen.

  SORT <MAILLIST.TXT >LPT1:      This sorts the lines in MAILLIST.TXT and
                                 writes them to the printer. 

  DIR | SORT/+14                 Here we are sorting the output from the DIR
                                 command starting on column 14 (which is the
TUTOR    BAS   1022              file's size). In this example, the SORT is a
PAL      TXT   9042              used in conjunction with another command.
DBTUTOR  EXE  10661              Notice the use of |(piping) to send the
MYFILE   DOC 101512              output of the DIR command into SORT. Use +9
                                 to sort by extension, +23 to sort by date, 
                                 and +33 to sort by time.

  SORT <FILE1.TXT >ALPFILE1.TXT  This reads the lines in FILE1.TXT and writes
                                 the sorted lines to a file called
                                 ALPFILE1.TXT.


