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Hi Netters,

If I want to sort text files containing articles of variable length
according to a fixed criteria I thought of the following solution:

1) make a very long line with an article putting a special sequence in 
   order to remember the end of line, using tr, awk or sed
2) sorting according the given criteria using sort
3) rechanging the special sequence to nl
A problem is most utilities allows for limmited length of line

Is there any better solution or possibly a utility for that.

I found this problem when I saved mails in the wrong incoming order
in a folder. For that special pourpose there is special option on Sun in 
the mail utility but I can imagine other situations where a similar 
problem will occur.

Please answer by e-mail. Thanks

Norbert Ebel