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fsort

Purpose
Sort the lines of a file.
Synopsis
procedure fsort(sense:boolean, src:text, dst:text)
Arguments
sense 
Sense of the sorting ( SYS_UP or SYS_DOWN).
src 
Source file.
dst 
Destination file (can be the same as src).
Example
Assuming the file 'unsorted.txt' contains the numbers 1,5,4,2 on individual rows, we can display its sorted contents as follows: 
 fsort(SYS_UP, "unsorted.txt","sorted.txt")
   ! -> SORT unsorted.txt sorted.txt
 cat("sorted.txt","")
   ! -> CAT sorted.txt
   ! 1
   ! 2
   ! 4
   ! 5
Further information
Execution of the program terminates if the operation fails and exitonfail is true.

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