Re: macro execution time

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From: W. J. Metzger
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1992 08:27

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On Tue, 8 Dec 1992 13:58:44 EST Richard Varenas said:
>In article <XEDIT-L%92120715220630@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>, you say:
>>
>>Would someone please critique the xedit macro below and tell me why it
>>takes so long to execute especially when a file has > 500 records.
>>
>>The macro (showdups) shows duplicate records in a file.
>>
Since you have PIPES, why not just use  PIPE SORT UNIQUE, or if the file
is sorted PIPE UNIQUE.  The duplicate records are written to the
secondary output stream.

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