This is also a great way to hide files from casual users: make the name unprintable characters and they do not see the file.
Or make it read only on a writable disk: use lower case or unprintable characters in the name. Without a program it is difficult to overwrite, read, or delete the file. Been bit more than once. :-) Lloyd ----- Original Message ---- From: Phil Smith <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 5:17:35 PM Subject: Re: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all (Oddly, the one quasi-counter-argument is CMS, where you have to work at it to create/use a file with lowercase in the fileid-but that's a different kettle of hamsters, since it's more a byproduct of an historical mistake than a deliberate feature, and not the same at all as *IX.) -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
