large sorts in TURBO C

[Francois Pinard]

In article <838 at compnect.UUCP> johncore at compnect.UUCP (John Core ) writes:

   I need some guidence in the right direction or some code to write a
   routine in TURBO C to alpha sort a large file. We are talking over
   7 megs so an in memory sort will not cut it. I have done block and
   merge sorts in basic (cb86) but they start to choke after 32000
   records.  Any help would be appreciated.

I would start by looking at the MS-DOS port of GNU sort, which may be
found in file sort03.zoo in any GNUdos archive.  This is a full UNIX
sort, accepting the same syntax commands and using external temporary
files if necessary.  I've also heard that it is quite fast on MS-DOS,
compared to several others.

The collection of programs known as the GNUish MS-DOS project is
available for ftp at the following addresses:

	vulcan.phyast.pitt.edu [130.49.33.16], in pub/pc/gnudos.
	ocf.berkeley.edu [128.32.184.254], in pub/erc/gnuish-msdos.
	funic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100], in pub/msdos/gnudos.
	wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.2.0.74], in pd:<msdos.gnuish>.

Thorsten Ohl <td12 at ddagsi3.bitnet> made most of the ports, and
moderates the project.
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