On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:49:00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You should never CUT and paste from something like a log file. Most log >files are open files being written to as needed. To CUT from the log >would change it and it could be corrupted when the program tries to >write to it. You should COPY and paste from such a file.
How is one's inadvertent/accidental use of CUT instead of COPY prevented? I have often cursed Windows because Rename is right above Delete, and ISPF's 3.4 because on my Dvorak-style keyboard the "s" for select is adjacent to "d" for delete. I deleted one of my own files twice in one month. Grrrr.... Bill Fairchild Plainfield, IL "Facts are the enemy of truth." [Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
