HP 3000 Manuals

HP RPG/XL Utilities-Part 1 XSORT

Columns 7-12
Type of Sort 

In columns 7-12 you tell the program what type of sort you want carried
out.  SORTA means an Address-out sort.  SORTR means Record-out sort.
SORTC means a Count-only sort on the input files.

MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation