At 04:26 PM 6/9/95 -0700, Jeff Vance wrote:
>Questions for format=ACCESS
>
>  #1 Should format 9's name be "LOCKS" or "ACCDETAIL"?
 
LOCKS
 
>  #2 Do you like my proposed access values or are the names used by the :FILE
>     command better?
>     Proposed "ACC:" values are:             :FILE cmd ;acc= values are:
>     ---------------------------             ---------------------------
>       Read  (r-only, recptr starts at 0)      In
>       Write (w-only, eof starts at 0,         Out
>              previous data is deleted)
>       Update (read/write, recptr=0, eof not   Update
>               changed, can call fupdate)
>       Save (write, prev data not deleted,     OutKeep
>             recptr=0, eof not changed)
>       Append (write, recptr=eof)              Append
>       R/W (recptr=0, eof not changed, can't   InOut
>            call fupdate)
>       Execute (read/write, recptr=0, eof not  n/a
>                changed, need PM)
>       Readir (read contents of a directory)   n/a
>       Undefined (all sm_opens)                n/a
>
>  #3 Do you like my proposed sharing values or the ones in the :FILE cmd?
>     Proposed -sharing values are:           :FILE cmd values are:
>     ----------------------------            ---------------------------
>       shr                                     shr
>       excl                                    exc
>       EAR                                     EAR
>       multi                                   multi
>       gmulti                                  gmulti
>       EAW (excl-allow-w)                      semi
>       sexcl (sys-excl)                        n/a
 
Like others, I like yours better but still prefer consistency with other
commands, so unless you can get them *all* changed...
 
>  #4 The dotted IP address vs. domain name issue has not been resolved yet.
 
Stick with IP.  We can get the domain name other ways.
 
>  #5 (I hate to do this) but **if** you could only have one would you
>      choose format 8 or format 9.  --- my guess is 9.
 
I'd probably choose 9 so all the capability would be there, but then of
course I would immediately write a command file to emulate 8, and every time
I used it I'd complain about how #@/*! slow it was, and how if only the
*real* format 8 was available...
 
 
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