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Re: COBOL Sort Max Input Recs
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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 20 Aug 1997 03:41:40 GMT
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Jerry Fochtman ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: If Native Mode COBOL is used, it will utilize SORT/XL.  SORT/XL uses
: 2 unnamed scratch files and as such, one cannot issue a file equation
: for them.

This shouldn't make a difference.  When I left it, COBOLII/iX just
opens the dummy file to get the size and passes that to the Sort
intrinsics.  As you say, if there isn't enough space to sort what
you specify, that is another matter.

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