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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: sort fails on 400k file
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.235241.11549@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:52:41 GMT
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- In article <Btyw00.HnK@well.sf.ca.us> shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:
- >I wanted to sort a text file, line length less than 80 chars, total file
- >size 379438, on the second field, and the 2.0 sort told me that it had
- >insufficient storage. What's going on?
-
- The OS/2-supplied SORT is a bound executable, meaning it will run
- under both OS/2 and DOS sessions, and also meaning that, in order to
- remain compatible with DOS sessions, it inherits the limitations found
- in DOS SORT.
-
- You said you reverted to a Unix solution, but that certainly isn't
- necessary. There are a number of SORT replacements for the OS/2
- "side," including the GNU alternatives ported from Unix. Check
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp.
-
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