That's my recollection, too. SyncSort on Solaris blew the standard
fileutils sort away by such a margin it wasn't even a contest ....
--Jim--
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Tuomo Stauffer
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Linux on 390 Port
My $0.02 - knowing Syncsort back from 70's.. Yes - most of
the Syncsort functions can be done with Unix / Linux tools.
Performance - forget it..
You can't even compare Syncsort and the native Unix ( or Win
or whatever. ) sorts to it. It's in class of it's own. Sorting
is just not to sort some file - it's an art ( IMHO ). The
difference is so big that it's sometimes hard to believe. If
you are depent of sorts ( heavy reporting, batch runs, SQL -
the SQL native sorts are not very good, etc. ) Syncsort is the
only way. Let's hope to get "free as beer" Syncsort to Linux..
have nice day - tuomo
ps. maybe pay a little - they also have to make the living..
-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Chad Kerner
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:57 PM
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Thanks Mark. We are prototyping one of our critical HP-UX apps on
Linux/390. How does the standard sort performance compare to
that of SyncSort?
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From: Mark Earnest [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:12 PM
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Subject: Re: Sort Products
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Chad Kerner wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering what people are using for 3rd party sort
> products on Linux/390. We have SyncSort for UNIX, but I haven't hit
> their web site yet to see if it will run on Linux/390.
Most of what you do with Syncsort can be done with standard Unix
utilities. Linux has a sort program aptly named "sort". Type "man sort"
for usage instructions.
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