For what it's worth when we started using Uv I established an account exclusively for dictionaries. Our dictionary maintenance tool (VB4) was used to create files (and search or maintain dictionaries) so we controlled the data & dict totally (the Data element in a DATA account and it's Dictionary in the DICT account). Only designated DBA's had Unix level WRITE permissions to the DICT account - so everything was locked down. Periodically the LIVE data and dictionaries were copied onto the Dev machine so programmers quickly came to realise the futility of developing their own sub-sets, outside of their own test accounts. Read and execute permissions were globally available, so it encouraged proper library maintenance. Sadly the majority of our apps are now SQL based, so no more innovation for us.... Ray
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