On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:05:20 -0600, Charles Mills wrote: >I suspect you're right. > >I can live with the wildcard rename. That's my easiest path at present. It's >easy to forget to do the rename and then I end up with a mysterious mess. > Phil's suggestion of (symbolic) links makes the mess easy to clean up. But some compulsive applications insist on using the related name, not the symbolic name. So, then, hard links.
Consider abandoning JCL and using "make" with the flexibility to define suffix rules. >A little more background. MS VC, which is my IDE, uses ,cpp, I have been >uploading files with WS_FTP which can be configured to do the automatic >rename. I am trying to learn the wonderful world of SFTP and it does not >support renames. > >WS_FTP claims to have SSH support but it is pretty brain dead. It neither >supports the rename function under SFTP, nor does it allow ls /+mode=text. >Grrrr. > >Charles > >On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:21:15 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > >>It also says: >>> Supply a directory which contains files with the >>>appropriate extension. The default extension for C is >>>".c" and the default extension for C++ is ".C". >> >>I suspect that the word "default" is noise there and there's no way to change >>it, based on some searching (which I'm sure you also did). >> >>Would links work? Those would be quick to create and easy/safe to delete. >>Haven't tried them myself. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
