851	 Design and Characteristics of a Variable-Length Record Sort Using New Fixed-Length Record Sorting Techniques	 This paper describes the application of several new techniques for sorting fixed-length records to the problems of variable-length record sorting. The techniques have been implemented on a Sylvania computer system with fixed-length words of memory. Specifically the techniques sequence variable-length records of unrestricted size produce long initial strings of data merge strings of data at the power of T- where T is the number of work tapes in a system and do not restrict the volume of input data.
