HP RPG/iX Utilities Reference Manual (30318-90006)

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36 of the work record.
The following is an example of how XSORT builds your work record to reflect your specifications:
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| Control field | Control field | Data |
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1 7 8 17 18 36
NOTE The control fields must precede the data fields in the work record. They will be re-
tained on output unless you wish to drop them. Reasons for retaining or dropping con-
trol fields will be discussed in the Header Specifications section.
Three Types of Sort
Figure 1-2 illustrates XSORT's sort capability--Address-out, Record-out, and Count-only.
Figure 1-2. Three Types of Sort
Address-Out Sort (SORTA)
The output from an Address-out sort job consists of 4-byte binary relative record numbers of the records in
the input file.
An Address-out sort allows you to process a file in sorted order without using up disk or tape space copying
the entire file in order to process it.