HP 3000 Manual page 9

2 Introduction
Hewlett-Packard's Extra Function Sort for RPG/XL, hereaft er referred to as XSORT, enables users to
rearrange data in their files, drop records from their files, and reformat records, as shown in figure 1-1.
XSORT runs on the MPE XL computer system and is primarily used in conjunction with the RPG
programming language. Its origin was the unsupported utility SORT3 which was designed to perform
most of the functions of IBM's System/3 $DSORT and System/34 #GSORT. Similarities and differences are
covered in appendix A.
Figure 1-1. Uses of XSORT
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