PLEASE put stuff like this on PickWiki.

It's a wonderful place to put snippets, small programs, etc etc.

The one thing to watch out for about a user group keeping a repository
is that there's copyright issues involved. If you wrote the utility, you
can put it on PickWiki, or in a repository, or whatever. What the User
Group must NOT do (unfortunately) is to copy the code from the email
into a repository :-( This would raise a massive can of worms :-( When
did the US sign Berne? Things were a lot easier for USians (not us
Europeans) before then.

An alternative (should someone care to volunteer!) is to maintain an
index on the u2ug website pointing at a repository that stores the
emails.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 June 2007 22:50
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [U2] Basic developments "reverse engineering" tool ?

Other user groups that I belong(ed) to provide(d) a repository for user
submitted utilities. Things like neatly formatted file ACL's, tape
listings,
database copy routines, etc.... Each submission would include the
utility's
documentation, source code, any ancillary files (db) and executable if
applicable.

I am sure that there is a wealth of end user utilities available for U2.
This source code listing program would be a great start. Since our
software
vendor does not provide any technical documentation about their system,
the
sort of cross-reference source code tool features mentioned by Susan is
something I would find very usefull.

Currently, I just save any emails from this group that have useful
proc's or
commands. Searching the archives is usefull but an index of software
utilities by category might be a better way to help fledging U2
programmers
see how to accomplish certain tasks. 



Garry L. Smith
Dir Info Systems
Charles McMurray Company
V# 559-292-5782   F# 559-346-6169
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