Re: Simple disk-based sorting method

On Apr 15, 12:08 am, David Kelly <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Citizen Bob wrote:
>
> > I imagine that this method would open the input disk file and begin
> > reading records one at a time and performing some kind of sort
> > algorithm placing the result in a tem****ary output file. Once the
> > original file has been swept, the process starts over and runs again
> > and again for the required number of iterations until the entire list
> > is sorted in ascending order. I will implement this method in standard
> > DOS-based C (Microsoft Optimizing C Compiler "cl") using the Win2K
> > DVM.
>
> This is a classic Computer Science problem that has been solved many
times.

And the solutions, as usual, are enumerated in Knuth.

>
> An easy way to solve your problem ...