johnlemon555
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I'm looking for Microsoft Sort/IBM PCSORT does anybody have it. I looked all over the Internet and did not find it.
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Do anybody have Microsoft Sort/IBM PCSORT
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twolazy
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Are you looking for the version for CP/M?
johnlemon555
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I'm looking for MS-DOS Version. There is a version CP/M called M/Sort.
booboo
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There's a copy of the IBM PC version 1.00 here:
IBM Sort 1.00
IBM Personal Computer Sort Version 1.00 is a highly optimized and flexible high speed flat file database sorting and merging facility. It is an IBM OEM version of the Microsoft Sort programmer's utility. It operates using a programmable interpreter, supports ASCII and EBCIDIC, and can be used...
winworldpc.com
GeoffB17
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Were there other systems of this type?
Quite a while ago, I ended up looking after a system running in the USA (Baltimore) that was written using CBASIC (the DOS version). This used a sort utility, that was called from the CBASIC prog. I will still have a copy of the prog, somewhere with all the source for the complete system.
BUT, I never saw any documentation for it, I don't know much about it, I just left it alone and simply copied the calling routine from parts of the system where it was already working. However, I don't think it was IBM?
For a big dataset, the process was pretty efficient and seemed to work well. But, I seem to remember that for a small dataset, much less so. In such a case I think I decided to replace the SORT util with my own code using QS, which appeared to be much faster.
Geoff
Quite a while ago, I ended up looking after a system running in the USA (Baltimore) that was written using CBASIC (the DOS version). This used a sort utility, that was called from the CBASIC prog. I will still have a copy of the prog, somewhere with all the source for the complete system.
BUT, I never saw any documentation for it, I don't know much about it, I just left it alone and simply copied the calling routine from parts of the system where it was already working. However, I don't think it was IBM?
For a big dataset, the process was pretty efficient and seemed to work well. But, I seem to remember that for a small dataset, much less so. In such a case I think I decided to replace the SORT util with my own code using QS, which appeared to be much faster.
Geoff
GeoffB17
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Further to my note above, I've traced the program I was referring to in one of my archives.
This comprises a single .EXE, SORTRES.EXE, dated 28/11/88, 29.7k. Looking in this file reveals credits to Opt-Tech (c) 1983, 1988, v.4.0f. The software is loaded to be memory resident, and must be called by the working application. I assume it's not as sophisticated as the MS version - or was I using only part of it?
Geoff
This comprises a single .EXE, SORTRES.EXE, dated 28/11/88, 29.7k. Looking in this file reveals credits to Opt-Tech (c) 1983, 1988, v.4.0f. The software is loaded to be memory resident, and must be called by the working application. I assume it's not as sophisticated as the MS version - or was I using only part of it?
Geoff
GeoffB17
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Hm, interesting.
A quick Google.
I didn't expect this, but this system is alive and well and seems to have spread from DOS to Windows and Linux as well. There is info on the DOS version that I'll have to check out as it will shed some light on the version I was using back about 1990(?).
Is the MS version still 'live'? I've never heard of it.
Geoff
A quick Google.
I didn't expect this, but this system is alive and well and seems to have spread from DOS to Windows and Linux as well. There is info on the DOS version that I'll have to check out as it will shed some light on the version I was using back about 1990(?).
Is the MS version still 'live'? I've never heard of it.
Geoff