On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Mark Lindahl wrote:

>  I am looking to imbed sort routines into a COBOL program (other than
> using the SORT verb).  Does anyone know of internal sort subroutines
> that might be available?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Lindahl
> Xantel, Inc.
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>
Mark,

Look after the SORT.. intrinsics either in the Cobol or in the SORT/MERGE
manual. In the Pascal Manual you can find examples, how to use these
intrinsics.

The algorithm of their usage is the following:

SORTINIT
cycle for your input data:
     compose record to be sorted
     SORTINPUT
cycle for reading sort workfile:
   SORTOUTPUT
   print sorted record according to your taste
SORTEND

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