In the seventies and eighties when I used to program extensively in BASIC, the
Line Modify and Modify all buttons were true finger savers.  You could edit a
BASIC program very quickly with those keys.  Later on, as I moved away from
BASIC and SPL and got into C and other languages, the keys fell into disuse.
 In the late eighties and the nineties it was TDP in screen mode and Qedit and
now in the naughties, it's PC based editors.  What next?

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Richard Gambrell [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, February 23, 2000 8:36 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Line Modify and Modify All

Stan Sieler wrote:
...
> First,
> PEOPLE DO NOT USE "MODIFY ALL" or "LOCAL/REMOTE".  (I.e., from a statistical
> viewpoint, the number of people who do is so low as to be noise level.)
>
...
> be surprised to find an ordinary user saying "what the hell is Line Modify?".

Since I've used the 3k since 1983 and never used Line Modify or Modify
All,
*except* to fix people's terminals at times when they hit the wrong f-key
and
turned them on and I'm at least a little more curious than the average
user, I just *know* many of us in the 3k community are waiting for
someone to explain just what these things were for!

Richard <grin> Gambrell

--
Richard L Gambrell, Chair of Mocs Express Process Team
Database Administrator and
Consultant to Computing Services at UTC

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