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Cander

Dec 2nd, 2003, 02:02 PM

can you check if it has the old dos sorting app
sort.exe ?

A service I am writing could make good use of it, but I need to know in advance if it runs on those 2 platforms first.

Edneeis

Dec 2nd, 2003, 02:15 PM

XP does or at least it runs something when I type sort at a command prompt.

Cander

Dec 2nd, 2003, 02:17 PM

Thanks. Thats 1 down. Anyone with 2003?

papacorn

Dec 2nd, 2003, 02:18 PM

XP Pro has it.....Not sure about 2003

/*edit...Edneesis, you beat me to it..*/

Edneeis

Dec 2nd, 2003, 06:15 PM

Originally posted by papacorn
XP Pro has it.....Not sure about 2003

/*edit...Edneesis, you beat me to it..*/

Ahh Hha I'm snappy quick today!

Win 2k3 must have it too, because it does the exact same thing at the command prompt and it worked from a terminal server session.

mendhak

Dec 2nd, 2003, 09:57 PM

I just checked in Win 2003 Server. It has the sort thing.

What does sort do anyways? I couldn't understand from the help associated with it.

Cander

Dec 3rd, 2003, 09:36 AM

sorting a text file.I needed to sort a file with 200,000 records in it quciklyso I can remove duplicate records. Right now i write the whole line to a table and check if a primary key is violated. But this is slow. Using sort and then removing duplicates would only take a few seconds.