On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:02:42 -0400, Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lots of shops, no disk. >Even with a disk, the sort program was loaded from cards. >I seem to remember the sort program being huge and the input >being stuffed into the middle of the deck. > >Then you had to modify the receiving program to read disk instead >of tape. Sorting files too big for disks wasn't a problem that ended in the card-sorter days. The interesting one is when the files to be sorted were multiple tape files. The solution was to sort what could fit on a tape - repeating on multiple tapes until the file was spread about a bunch of sorted tapes. Then merge the tape files. Hopefully we had enough tape drives for all of the tapes to be merged in one pass. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
