The following sortwords have predetermined usage and value:
RANDOM | floating point sortword, random value between 0.0 and 1.0 |
IRANDOM | integer sortword, random value between 0 and 32767 |
GATE | see IF... and LOOPIF...MASKEDBY|GATEDBY commands |
WORDX | see LOOPIF... command |
WORDY | see LOOPIF... command |
STREAM | Usually set =1 |
RUNFILE_NUMBER | runfile number of currently sorted tape (1 for first file, etc.) |
BLOCK_NUMBER | current block number in currently sorted runfile |
LOOP | no longer used, see doloop command |