Peter Hunkeler wrote: >Not sure whether I shall laugh or cry. DFSort is a great tool, no doubt; it's >control statements (I intentionally don't called it "language") are a >nightmare, no doubt. Hopefully noone will ever consider the above as something >suitable for production. Overkill; not maintainable.
Perhaps, this is why ICETOOL is in place. That is a great tool. You can always write a 3rd SORT system with a build in programming language. Hopefully that system is sort of free... Something like this, sort of, but ... PROGRAM Sort-it-Yourself Declaration fiels left to programmer as an exercise... OPEN IN OPEN OUT For records 1 - last do sort by surname output name, surname, phone number end for SHOW records 'Records sorted by surname.' Close everything; SHOW ' You're sorted out!' Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
