[comp.lang.pascal] Btree Filer BIGSORT setup

Ken.Akridge@f1999.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Akridge) (01/04/91)

Would someone explain how to set up Bigsort ?  I have a filwith over 50,000 
lines that looks like this:
  
77388 Houston TX
36330nterprise AL
...
...
 
I ran bigsort on it on and the program created 50 or so files each 78K in 
length and promply ran out of disk space.  I examined the contents of the 
newly created temp files and found them to be mostly blank spaces.  What is 
MSORT doing here...and how can I set this thing up in a way so that I don't 
run out of disk space ?
  
                          thanks...ken