"John P. Hartmann" wrote: > Let me understand your requirement. Do you want a selection > stage that will validate the record the same way as DMSVALDT does?
That sounds just right. > Note the STATE might reject file identifiers that < might be able to > read (NAMEDEFS, essentially). I was actually thinking too narrowly, in terms of filemodes, and hadn't even considered unaccessed directories. Accepting dirids but not namedefs, the same as STATE, sounds very reasonable. ¬R
