Microsoft KB Archive/32791

SORTM “Error: Expected Statement Keyword”; Use Text LOAD File PSS ID Number: Q32791 Article last modified on 07-19-1988 PSS database name: B_SORT

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MS-DOS

Summary: The Microsoft Standalone SORT Facility’s run-time module is an interpreter named SORTM.EXE. SORTM.EXE executes files that have been previously saved in text format. For example, the command “SORTM EXAMPLE.SRT” executes the sorting commands stored in the text file EXAMPLE.SRT. The MS-SORT command language specifies how to sort various types of data files. Sort program files can be created in any text editor (e.g. Microsoft Word). However, the file must be saved in “unformatted” or “non-document” format. If the file is saved in “formatted” or “document” format, the following error message is generated:

Error: Expected Statement Keyword 1 command file error

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