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SORT-MERGE/XL Programmer's Guide

Merging 

MERGE/XL only merges files that have already been sorted.  For example,
if you merge a file that contains information on newly hired employees
with a file that contains information on current employees, each file
must have the same record format and be sorted by the same information.
If you merged two such files, each sorted by last name, you would get one
output file with all employees sorted by last name.  The output file
would have the same information and format as the two input files.


          Figure 1-3.  MERGE/XL Operations 

The intrinsics used for merging are:

HPMERGEINIT         Initializes MERGE/XL utility and begins the merging
                    operation (required).

HPMERGEERRORMESS    Returns error messages.

HPMERGEOUTPUT       Allows output to be by record (instead of file).

HPMERGEEND          Ends the merging operation (required).

HPMERGESTAT         Prints out merging statistics.

HPMERGETITLE        Prints out title information for MERGE/XL.


NOTE  For merging operations, use only the merge intrinsics.  Do not mix
      sort and merge intrinsics.

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