Paul Gilmartin wrote, in part:
>I found that SuperC produced cleaner UPDATE files than XEDIT.
Can you elaborate? All I can think that you mean is that it ignored
touched-but-not-actually-changed records. The experienced update creator
with XEDIT will always review an update after creation, both to look for
these ("Hey, I didn't think I changed that line.ah, no, I didn't") and to
look for places where scrunching a big change in where one line existed
caused strange sequence numbering.
Having used XEDIT in update mode for 30 years, I find the power of updates
plus AUX and CNTRL files to be pretty amazing for maintenance of code, and
the tools that do update by replacement of the entire file much more
difficult to use, even after almost 20 years of those. YMMV.
.phsiii
