Sorry for my ignorance. Am I to understand that you have a file of 1,000,000
records which are in order and you want a way to mix them up?

James

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Subject: Randomizing large ASCII files


I have a very large ASCII file (270 bytes per record with approx. 1,000,000
records) that needs to be randomized.  The current program we are using
takes a couple of hours to run.  Does anyone have a faster method?  I was
hoping TurboSort could randomize but I can't find anything in the
documentation.
Allen Porter
Programmer II
Maritz Marketing Research INC

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