On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 22:44, Kris Buelens <[email protected]> wrote:
> And, what I detected: LOOK was much used by my former long-time customer, > where SFS was used a lot too. And, there were procedures that looked at > the last-reference date of the files. So we did not want that executing a > LOOK would be counted as a reference. So I made LOOK take care of that too > by using the right option on the <SFS stage. I do mention this here so one > can exploit that idea too in one's own "look" tool if wanted. > Sure, if it's SFS you could use OLDDATEREF on the stage reading the files. You could use STATE to tell where the file is, and have your own variation on GETFILES that takes the extra options for this. While at it, you'd probably add an option for the line numbers as well... Rob
