"Craddock, Chris" wrote: > > As in horshoes? Yes. The ECB is one of the most widely used "tools" in > the system. As a serialization primitive it is just awful, but there's > no getting away from it now. >
The ECB might not be perfect, but compared to what you have to put up with on Unix where there are about a half dozen mechanisms which can't be used together, it is downright brilliant. > > CC Henry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

