Gibney, Dave wrote:
Either or both are more keystrokes than I care to do frequently on the fly.
Typos happen.
Write once, cut'n'paste forever.
But you're going against the lead systems programmer very early in my
career (1983). One of the grunt-work things I had to do was create an
alias for each new TSO id. I was taught the procedure as:
a) Get the next paper from the pile of new TSO id requests
b) Logon and issue a command such as:
DEFINE ALIAS(NAME('XYZ123') RELATE('ICFCAT.SYS123'))
I immediately coded that into a clist so I would make less typos. The
lead lady saw me working one day and said No, you need to type the
entire command out each time. Why? So you won't forget it. What if
your clist fails to work?
Well, of course I ignored that :)
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