Sorting Large File (Code/Performance)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-01-27, Stefan Behnel <stefan.behnel-n05pAM at web.de> wrote:
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>> use the Windows sort command. It has been
>> there since MS-DOS ages, there is no need to download and install other
>> packages, and the documentation at
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491004.aspx says:
>> 
>> Limits on file size:
>>   The sort command has no limit on file size.
>
> Sure, since no-one can ever try it with more than 640k, it's
> easy to state that there is no limit. :)

Huh?  I used DOS sort to sort files much bigger than 640K.  And
I used the Unix sort command on a machine with 64K bytes of
data space to sort files even larger than the ones under DOS.

-- 
Grant