This archive contains the utilities msort(1) and dsort(1). Both sort text files lexicographically. Msort is a fast in-place memory sort. Dsort is a disk based sort that can handle "arbitrarily large" files (in reality, limited to ULONG_MAX -- 4 294 967 295 -- bytes). The big difference between these sorts and the previously available sort(1) is that these won't crash your system ... if either run into problems, they exit gracefully and (if you are using the verbose flag) tell you what the problem is. Enjoy. Devin Reade 14 June 1994