Craddock, Chris wrote:
Therefore, at the extreme one might argue
that efforts to thwart those users are tantamount to sabotage.
Certainly those users didn't accidentally pull up view instead of
browse.
Actually they probably did.
"View" became the default a very long time ago. You have to put that
dopey slash next to the "Browse" option to get browse instead. I have a
few reasons for disliking View. Among them; it does exactly what this
thread accuses - eat virtual storage and it eats 9 characters of on the
left margin for utterly useless line numbers.
Re-read the original post, Chris. The users ran up against the
artificial storage limit the OP placed into the ISPF configuration. If
this had simply been VIEW vs BROWSE, they would have just changed to
BROWSE and moved on. Instead, they went to considerable effort to get
around the restriction. They discovered and exploited a "hole" in ISPF's
limit checking that allows them to EDIT a small file and then copy in
the "large" one they *really* want to EDIT. Sounds to me like they
deserve a raise! :-)
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