At 04:48 PM 10/2/96 -0700, Mark Watkins wrote:
>I am using Transact and VPLUS to maintain an on-line application.  A
>client has requested that I build a screen to list entries from a Manual
>Master - in sorted order. The only manuals I can find (Oct 87) state
>that SORT is only allowed on the FIND verb. So, I have used the
>FIND(SERIAL) with the SORT and PERFORM statements - the results
>displayed on the screen are the list of entries, and they are not
>sorted. Are there any Transact programmers left out there who might have
>a suggestion? (Other than making the master a detail - tried that one,
>but the client said no)

Although I'm not a Transact person (Ken, where are you!), when b-trees are
delivered in IMAGE/SQL (probably later this year(summer?)) you'll be able to
use the b-tree index to return the entries in sorted order directly without
having to extract/sort/read the data.

/jf

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