psort36_2

Short:        Pipe-friendly "Sort" replacement (pure)
Author:       zodiac@darkness.gun.de (Ralph Seichter)
Uploader:     seichter uran informatik uni-bonn de
Type:         util/cli
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

"YAST (Yet Another Sorting Tool)?" you may ask, and you're right. PSort is
a small sorting program which uses a "quick sort" algorhythm for acceptable
speed. It has all features of Commodore's "Sort" plus a few advantages over
all sort commands which I've seen so far (and which didn't fit my needs),
so there *are* some reasons to use PSort:

a) It's really small. b) It uses standard I/O channels as a default, which
makes PSort quite useful in I/O pipes. PSort is, in fact, a short form for
"Pipe-friendly Sort". c) PSort will sort as much text as fits in your RAM,
there's no other limit to the number of lines. d) PSort is pure, you can
make it resident (include "Resident psort PURE ADD" in your user-startup).

Note that PSort requires 'dos.library' V36 (Kickstart 2.0) or better.

History:

   V36.2: Added COLSTART, NUMERIC and REVERSE.

   V36.1: Initial release.