How much, you ask. Well it seems that everyone IS concerned with
backward compatibility right down to the column positions in a commands
output. As I remember, everyone else but me voted for the A or C options
for TB files and LISTF. Heck, there are still CACHECONTROL and QUANTUM
commands, albeit it returns a message saying that the command is not
supported on MPE/iX. So it seem that backward compatibility as far as CI
commands are concerned, is going to be carried to the nth degree.

P.S. I also find myself looking for posix files with LISTF. sheesh!

John Zoltak
North American mfg Co

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Geiser [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 1998 3:15 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] 1 Tbyte files and LISTF
>
> Now, that said - I'm not advocating updating both LISTF and LISTFILE.
> LISTFILE is the *official* MPE command, and LISTF was kept around as a
> command file for backward compatibility.  How much is HP committed to
> backward compatibility in this case?  I could live with the changes in
> LISTFILE only, but again, that's me...  not the other 50,000+ MPE
> users in
> the world.
>
> Happy Weekend all...
>
> Joe