It can be a lot easier than that if you're running Win95/98, or 3.1.
I'm not sure about NT; I'm working from home today, I don't have an NT
system handy, so I can't test it.
Just do the following from a command prompt (DOS prompt):
sort <infilename.ext >outfilename.ext
Works fine. "outfilename.ext" has the sorted list.
BUT: If you've got shell access to the unix account where your list
resides, you can (and should) use the unix sort command. If you don't,
then you may not have write access to ftp your sorted file back to the
unix box.
Jack Teems wrote:
>
> Back in the days when I did all my mailing with Eudora, I used MS Word to
> alphabetize and then simply copied and pasted back to the address book.
>
> Mark A. Bialik wrote:
>
> > Ed Rogers wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone know of a quick and easy way to alphabatize a LONG list of
> > > subscribers on a list without doing it by hand? Is there a script for
> > > that?
> >
> > Well, on a UNIX system, try this from the shell:
> >
> > sort -f listname > listname.out
> > mv listname.out listname
> >
> > You need to redirect sort's output to a file in order to save it, like I
> > did above. Then rename the .out file to your regular listname. I'd
> > backup the original first.
> >
> > Just do a sort -f listname without redirection if you want to see what
> > it's going to do, just to make sure everything looks the way you want.
> >
> > The -f option will treat upper and lowercase letters the same (C is the
> > same as a c).
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Mark
> >
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