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Fred Fish's Product-Info | 1994-12-31 | 1.2 KB | 49 lines |
- # This file contains product information that can be used by
- # KingFisher 2.0 and other similar tools.
-
- .name
- FSort
- .type
- CLI Tool
- .short
- Very fast file sorting utility
- .description
- File sorting... Hmm... C:Sort does this... But it's very
- sssslllllooooowwwww. ARP Sort sorts slightly faster.
-
- - FSort tries to be much more better.
- - FSort supports input from stdin and output to stdout (PIPES !!!).
- - FSort eats less RAM (but slightly more than ARP Sort).
- - FSort requires Kickstart 2.04 or higher.
- - FSort is pure and can be made resident.
- - FSort takes advantage of the powerful ss.library (also in this archive,
- see SSLib<???>.lha on the AmiNet for complete distribution).
-
- Speed comparison: (280K file, on GVP A530 Turbo - 68EC030 40MHz)
-
- original C:Sort 37.3 36 seconds 380K used
- ARP Sort 27 seconds 317K used
- FSort 4.9 seconds 334K used
-
- All the timings are measured by Stat 1.0 (available in MJUtils.lha
- on AmiNet).
-
- .version
- 1.1
- .date
- 1994.12.12
- .author
- Martin Mares
- .distribution
- Freeware
- .email
- mjsoft@k332.feld.cvut.cz>.
- .source
- Includes source in assembler
- .docs
- FSort.doc
- .described-by
- Dan Fish (daf@starfish.amigalib.com)
- .submittal
- Downloaded via ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu.
-