Sorting filePro Arrays

[Bob Stockler]

After I posted my ADVT for my routines to sort filePro arrays,
I tested all of my sorting tables and found a problem with one
on Windows that writes the elements of an array to a temporary
file, then uses the Windows SORT program to sort it an redirect
it to a file that that is then read back in to the array.

That worked on Windows Me and the filePro version I had on it in
2003 when I wrote to programs, but it doesn't now on Windows XP
and the latest version of filePro.

The array is written out to a tempory file OK, but the file to
which SORT's output is redirected doesn't contain anything.  I
got a command ("cmd") prompt and executed:

  SORT sort.tmp > sorted.tmp

and it worked as expected, but doing the same thing with filePro's
SYSTEM command no longer works.  Here is the significant code:

       If: DOS
     Then: TEMP1 = "C:\temp\sort.tmp"
       If: DOS
     Then: TEMP2 = "C:\temp\sorted.tmp"
       If: DOS
     Then: system noredraw "SORT" < TEMP1 < ">" < TEMP2

The file "sorted.tmp" is created, but doen't contain the redirected
output of SORT.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Bob

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