Microsoft KB Archive/20131

SORT Data Types and File Organizations PSS ID Number: Q20131 Article last modified on 06-10-1988 PSS database name: B_SORT

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MS-DOS

Summary: MS SORT recognizes Microsoft BASIC, Microsoft Business BASIC, Microsoft COBOL, Microsoft Pascal, and Microsoft FORTRAN data types and file organizations, including Sequential, Random, Relative, Line Sequential, and Indexed. SORT will do the following:


 * 1) It will sort variable-length records.
 * 2) It will sort binary Sequential files in packed decimal format, e.g. Ryan McFarland files.
 * 3) It will allow you to sort by as many fields as there are in the record.

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