Re: Sorting/Printing

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From: libh
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:38

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In article <BtA5C2.HqE@world.std.com>, jkenton@world.std.com (Jeff Kenton) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.022202.2349@menudo.uh.edu> libh@Jane.UH.EDU writes:
>>
>>  I am working on a project for a friend that requires me to sort a large file
>>of records (2000+ entries generally) that will change from month to month as he
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>There are lots of different sorting techniques.  See Knuth, Volume 3.
>
>Before you actually go write a serious disk sort (it will teach you
>something worthwhile, of course) consider just sorting the new entries
>each month and merging them into the old (sorted) file.  Much quicker.
>
  I used to have access to Knuth and read it often but someone stole it from
the library.  Also, the problem with sorting the new files and merging is that
each month will be a seperate file that shouldn't be merged.  (January,
February, etc.....).

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