Well, gang . I think that the U2's should be smarter about reporting what file can't write and WHY and also failing more gracefully than a SPLAT to TCL.
Nevertheless, since IBM is not interested in my idea now that I'm on a PE edition and y'all didn't jump all over the idea - I'll go revamp all WRITEs through a subroutine (particularly obnoxious since you can't pass file variables as arguments in one of the flavors, I forget which). So now, I'm digging around looking for a command in BASIC that will let you test the waters - check a file for write-ability. And I'm coming up dry. I have stuff that does status on files but I don't see that I can test write permissions from there. Anyone? [If you could copy me on your reply I'd appreciate not having to wait for the digest. ] Thanks a mil! Susan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
