Hahaha ... that's a pile of data!  I use MS SQL Server for this type of
stuff!  Probably not what you were looking for, but that's how I do it
(or, say MS Access if you have Office??).

-- Mitch


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?
>
> I have a file that is 3,480,231kB of unsorted ASCII values, and I need it
> sorted... and, yes, I do have some idea of the time that this will take.
>
> I'm using WinXP for this, so win32 compatible utilities are a good thing
> for me.
>
> Thanks
>
> --Brendan
>
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