Re: [LUG] programming question

["MATTHEW BROWNING" <M.Browning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Good morning.
>
> People who start mails like this want something difficult doing :)


``The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, 
surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the 
mannerly is comfort, per se.''  -- June Jordan 



> > I wish to sort a file of binary data wherein the entries are 
> > delimited by nothing.
>
> Here we go :)
>
> Are they fixed width fields, or contexually dependant length?

Fixed width.


> If they are binary, what would you like to sort them by?

Anything at all would be a step in the right direction.


> Would it be easier to get the generating program to sort them?
>
> Are you sure indexing wouldn't be easier, more appropriate or more
> maintainable ?


Quite right, of course.  This is not my  problem, specifically, but 
was referred to me by a friend.  It therefore stands as it is.


MB.

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