What is the purpose of using the N=PS option?

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What is the purpose of using the N=PS option?..

Answer / chaitanya

The N=PS option creates a buffer in memory which is large
enough to store PAGESIZE (PS) lines and enables a page to
be formatted randomly prior to it being printed.

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What is the purpose of using the N=PS option?..

Answer / ankit

N=PS option allows access to full page at one time (default is one line or record at a time)

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