SORT Data Types and File Organizations
PSS ID Number: Q20131
Article last modified on 06-10-1988
PSS database name: B_SORT

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MS-DOS


Summary:
   MS SORT recognizes Microsoft BASIC, Microsoft Business BASIC,
Microsoft COBOL, Microsoft Pascal, and Microsoft FORTRAN data types
and file organizations, including Sequential, Random, Relative, Line
Sequential, and Indexed. 
   SORT will do the following:

   1. It will sort variable-length records.
   2. It will sort binary Sequential files in packed decimal format,
e.g. Ryan McFarland files. 
   3. It will allow you to sort by as many fields as there are in the
record. 

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1988.