On 2008-01-27, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> use the Windows sort command. It has been >> there since MS-DOS ages, there is no need to download and install other >> packages, and the documentation at >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491004.aspx says: >> >> Limits on file size: >> The sort command has no limit on file size. > > Sure, since no-one can ever try it with more than 640k, it's > easy to state that there is no limit. :)
Huh? I used DOS sort to sort files much bigger than 640K. And I used the Unix sort command on a machine with 64K bytes of data space to sort files even larger than the ones under DOS. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list