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November 1998, Week 5

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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:52:40 -0500
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Thus it was written in the epistle of Leonard Berkowitz,
> I understand the difference between CIUPDATE=ON and CIUPDATE=ALLOWED (a call
> to DBCONTROL mode 5). Can someone provide a scenario where the distinction is
> significant? After all the same program[mer] can convert CIUPDATE=ALLOWED to
> CIUPDATE=ON.

I had understood it as a safety feature.  With CIUPDATE=ALLOWED, you have to
say to IMAGE, "yes, I really did mean to update this critical item."

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of
inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used
the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.
                        -- Rossi, Hugo

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