Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Lueck
Chip Davis wrote: SysFileTree() otoh, was never intended for interactive use and is more accurately regarded as a application interface to the file system. snip IMHO, of course. So was that a +1 for my RFE? -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Chip Davis
On 8/28/2012 08:46 Rony G. Flatscher said: On 28.08.2012 13:02, Michael Lueck wrote: Chip Davis wrote: SysFileTree() otoh, was never intended for interactive use and is more accurately regarded as a application interface to the file system. snip IMHO, of course. So was that a +1 for my

Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Chip Davis c...@aviatrexx.com wrote: On 8/28/2012 08:46 Rony G. Flatscher said: Just did that and saw that you yourself had not done that vote up. I had not bumped the RFE because I wanted to initiate a discussion Actually I think Rony meant Michael had not

Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 28.08.2012 19:32, Mark Miesfeld wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Chip Davis c...@aviatrexx.com wrote: On 8/28/2012 08:46 Rony G. Flatscher said: Just did that and saw that you yourself had not done that vote up. I had not bumped the RFE because I wanted to initiate a discussion

Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Chip Davis
On 8/28/2012 14:08 Rony G. Flatscher said: On 28.08.2012 19:32, Mark Miesfeld wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Chip Davis c...@aviatrexx.com wrote: On 8/28/2012 08:46 Rony G. Flatscher said: Just did that and saw that you yourself had not done that vote up. I had not bumped the RFE

Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Lueck
Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Hmm, only after reading this did I conclude that I could do a +1 on your RFE right there at: I had no idea that the SF site had a voting system. I was interested in tabulating peer support that I am not a lunatic for requesting. ;-) Sincerely, -- Michael Lueck

Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Lueck
Mark Miesfeld wrote: I agree with you that the reasonable default for the S flags would have been all files. But it wasn't implemented that way on Unix-like systems. It's been that way for a long time, probably forever. If we suddenly changed the behavior, programs like the ones Michael has

Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-27 Thread Michael Lueck
Mark Miesfeld wrote: Opening up a RFE is the only way to get that enhancement. But, opening up a RFE is not guaranteed to get it. I took that as a hint that a prior RFE was not on file. I had to hunt around for the developer links to the SF site. Finally found a static link to the RFE

Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-27 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Michael Lueck mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com wrote: I had to hunt around for the developer links to the SF site. Finally found a static link to the RFE tracker at the ooRexx site. ( http://www.oorexx.org/support/ ) Through the many SF redesigns, most all of the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-27 Thread Chip Davis
Historically, commands that listed files, limited the display for one reason or another. LISTFILE in CMS showed only one minidisk at a time, 'ls' in Unix (Multics?) omitted 'dot-files', TSO limited you to the low-level qualifier or a single PDS. The main reason was to save console

[Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-26 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings, I can not remember if I ever officially opened an enhancement request against SysFileTree or not, however... ;-) Some time ago I ran up against unhelpful behavior with SysFileTree on *nix and the dotted 'hidden' file/directory concept. I recall it being stated that a new switch

Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-26 Thread Mark Miesfeld
Michael, Opening up a RFE is the only way to get that enhancement. But, opening up a RFE is not guaranteed to get it. -- Mark Miesfeld On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Michael Lueck mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com wrote: Greetings, I can not remember if I ever officially opened an enhancement