Larry Boyd ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
 
> I have an additionally suggestion.  What if HP selected a filecode that
> would define command files?  If the file is ASCII it would still work, and
> if the file is binary, the code could be checked.
>
> The primary reason for the suggestion is that I've always thought that
> command files and UDCs should have filecodes.  It makes it very easy to
> look at files with listf or MPEX and "see" if they are UDCs or command
> files.
 
I wish to respectfully disagree.  Being the type who never remembers to
do a chmod on my UNIX scripts, and who then spends several seconds in
dememtia figuring out why the script won't run, I know I'd make the same
omission with file codes.
 
However, if HP defined a file code strictly for binary command files and
added the appropriate if-logic (i.e., allow any file code for ASCII and
a specific file code for binary), I would not complain.
 
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