I took the freedom to enhance the code a bit.
I did regret that there was no way to for example perform a hex sort. So,
my enhancement allows the user to pass either simple arguments for the SORT
stage, or to pass a few stages, which would normally include a SORT. I also
changed the parse of
Finally closing the loop with this thread:
With offline help from Rob, the following are two slightly different means
to accomplish the same thing - answering my original question about how to
sort a file within XEDIT without performing disk I/O, and without
needlessly buffering the whole file