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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 20 Oct 1992 04:40:52 MST
Date: 19 Oct 92 09:21:16 GMT
From: eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!sics.se!eua.ericsson.se!euas27c34!konhks@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Hakan Soderstrom)
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Subject: Re: sortf - sortff?
Message-Id: <1992Oct19.092116.18168@eua.ericsson.se>
References: <1992Oct14.050320.9087@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article 9087@midway.uchicago.edu, goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
>Version 8 of Icon has sortf. Seems useful. But what if you want to
'sortf'? Ain't heard of no such thing. It's not in the Book either.
When I do more complex sorting jobs I write a file and run Unix 'sort' on it.
The output can be comfortably read if you invoke sort in the spirit of
open ("/usr/bin/sort <parameters>", "rp")
Or are we talking MS-DOS?
Basic sorts on tables, sets, and lists is something I do all the time.
Extremely useful. Icon is already on the verge of being weighed down by features,
so I would not vote for a further complication of 'sort'.
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Hakan Soderstrom