In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/06/2006
at 11:12 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>In a small VM/CMS installation, I approached our sysadmin/consultant/
>VM JOAT for help with a problem in a Rexx EXEC. As sysadmin, he was
>able to log on to my account and try a fix. He didn't notice the
>CASE MIXED nor the ADDRESS COMMAND. Failed. He knew what to do: he
>re-entered XEDIT and quickly typed TOP; UPPER *; SAVE. I carried on
>and threatened managerial action until he recovered the EXEC from a
>backup.
He should have backed it up before he mucked with it, and should have
restored it as soon as he knew that it was broken.
>I'd be delighted if they simply eliminated the CAPS facility
>entirely;
I'd hate it.
>But an alternative: How about an enhancement to the JCL converter
>in the form of case markup. E.g:
> //SYSUT1 DD PATHOPTS=ORDONLY,
> // PATH='<MINUSCULE>/DEV/NULL</MINUSCULE>'
That would get really ugly for mixed case names.
>Or a langage-sensitive CAPS mode in the editor, which would take
>text as-is in comments and quoted strings, and convert to majuscule
>elsewhere.
Now *that* has promise. I wrote some XEDIT prefix macros that did
exactly that for Assembler.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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