Gibney, Dave wrote:
A problem is that many applications programmers are to busy, or don't care enough for such exploration and manual reading.
Agreed. Just don't blame the sysprogs ...
At least some of those who do have such an inclination or "the knack", well, they used to become systems programmers :)
Or software developers. ;-) -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

