Thanks, Matt. That's a substantive answer, and I think confirms what I had posited, more or less.
Put another way, it's "Windows 1.0 for z/OS". That's not a bad thing, but remember that Windows didn't really start to be successful until it left the "fullscreen shell over linemode" paradigm. Yes, it's 30 years later, so things have evolved somewhat, but my concern with this approach is safety: it's bad enough when you do the wrong thing and fall off the cliff into linemode-land. It's worse when you do the wrong thing and you *don't* fall off the cliff, but things keep on going. I'm hopeful that experience with the Linux GUIs (GNOME et al.) is sufficient to prove my fears groundless. .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
