I believe that LISTFILE (!?!) does mention this parm. And ALTSEC under
4.0 does not explain ACDs. *Sigh*. Reminds me of the proposal for 'UNIX
without words'.

Note that LISTUSER, LISTGROUP, and LISTACCT all take ;FORMAT=BRIEF, et
al. This is to say that they take real English words as arguments
instead of arbitrary numbers; whether you know what this will actually
produce is another matter, but you can guess that is will be brief in
contrast to something else.

One can go to the trouble of defining variables to function this way:
SETVAR ACD -2 to allow LISTFILE filename,!ACD. It's a pity to have to,
though.

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>From:  [log in to unmask][SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Friday, November 15, 1996 1:49 PM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       Re: Strange file access problem...
>
>Goetz Neumann <[log in to unmask]> wrote on Tuesday, Nov 12:
>> How did you check for the ACDs ? Did you try LISTF,-2 ?
>
>That's interesting! On this 5.0 system, -2 is not listed as an option under
>:HELP LISTF,PARMS although it works.
>
><soapbox>
>But PLEASE consider using LISTFILE,ACD instead! With 12 different numbers
>for :LISTFILE and 68 (!) numbers for FINFO(), it is all too easy to forget
>which is which. (Quick! What does finfo(filename,37) return? I don't know
>either, so PLEASE use the names!)
></soapbox>
>
>--Glenn Cole
>  Software al dente, Inc.
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