Ftp it to a UNIX box and use sort?  8-)

Or import into Excel and sort it, if Excel will take it.  Or Access.  Or
install the Cygwin tools.  Or install Perl and write a one-liner.  That's
a joke, see, *ALL* Perl programs can be written as one-liners.

After the second margarita I find the possibilities are endless.  I doubt
any of the M$ Office products will work well on a 3GB file, but any of the
UNIX tools should work fine, and the dirty little secret is that many of
them can be made to work in Windows if you really want them to.

Dale
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Brendan Moran wrote:

> Does anyone know of an algorithm for sorting extremely large files of
> linebreak-separated, case-sensitive ASCII values?

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