> Tracy Johnson scrisse:
>> Once a few years ago, before I had known about putting
>> KEEPAMDATES in the MPEXMGR file, I had only used ;KEEPAMDATES
>> manually, religiously.  I used this scheme to determine when
>> the last time a simple Quiz report was used.  If a report
>> was two years old, I would look at it myself using ;KEEPAMDATES
>> to find out what it did.  Then ask Managemen or Users "Why do
>> we have this stinking report if we don't use it?"
>>
>> Then one day a new programmer printed all the Quiz code to
>> his screen using MPEX a wild card and the "Dontask" feature.
>>
>> Needless to say, he ruined my scheme of checking access dates
>> to determine last date a file was used.

Steve Dirickson (Volt) saith:
> Wouldn't he have been looking at the "source" copy stored in developer
> space, rather than the "user" copy, of the report? Where the "user" copy
> is the one that lives in user-land and which, by its access date, tells
> you when the report was last used?

"User Space" and "Developer Space" sounds like a mythical fantasyland
that only some (not all) companies abide by.  The reasons can be economic
(a cheap-ass company) or lack of disc space (a cheap-ass company.)  The
company I worked for at the time had no such area (a cheap-ass company.)

Speaking of which, by boss has just informed me the Expense Police will
not be funding our trip to HP-World this year.

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors

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