Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 1997 13:36:42 -0600 (CST)
From:	"Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To:	"'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject:	Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
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On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Jeff Harlow wrote:
> Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > Not here, (still) running 6.3 and sort complains, most annoying when I use
> > type filename.ext |sort >filename.ext
> > It kills my file in the process.
> Try sort < filename.ext > filename.srt
> 
> This still has the 64K limit, with PC-DOS 6.3, but filename.ext is left

Will sort return an error code if the file is larger than free memory or
64K?  Then I could use that and either:

sort success:	kill oldname
		rename newname (to) oldname
sort fail:	kill newname

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