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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 01:56:38 -0600
From: Jeff Harlow <jharlow AT ibm DOT net>
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Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Matthias Paul wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:58:49, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > > you ever tried to sort a file > 64k?  SUCKS!!!!!!!!
> >
> > (Some of these 64KB limitations have been fixed in current
> > versions of MS-DOS/PC-DOS, either... They learn slowly, but... ;-) )
> 
> Not here, (still) running 6.3 and sort complains, most annoying when I use
> the format:
> 
> 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
intact.

Jeff Harlow