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On 7/6/05, Preston Boyington <PBoyington at polyengineering.com> wrote:
> 
> I have some text files that I need to sort. Each file is (roughly) 2200 
> pages (134,000+ rows) of comma delimited text.
> 
> the text looks like so:
> 2117496.796445,882112.506031,483.908997
> 
> I have tried to import these into OOo (1.0.4) and Excel (2000) 
> spreadsheets, but keep hitting their limit on row count (32000 for OOo and 
> about 65000 for Excel).
> 
> Most likely I will have to sort the files by the third column / number 
> (initially at least).
> 
> How else can I sort these files quickly?
> 
> Thanks,
> Preston
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