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"Michael A. Vealey" <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael A. Vealey
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Tue, 14 May 1996 13:58:56 -0400
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I'm making some changes in an environment file found in a lot of our VPlus
forms. To get a general idea of what forms to look at, I did an MPEX print
searching for the environment file name and got a load of forms. When I started
going through them with FORMSPEC, I couldn't find the environment file name
anywhere in some of the forms.
 
On closer inspection, I discovered a whole LOAD of screens defined in the form
that FORMSPEC doesn't recognize and I can't get to. What gives? I'm assuming
it's like deleting records from a database; they're not really gone, just
flagged that way. It's not until a cleanup utility comes along do they get
removed from the file.
 
Is there a utility/command/secret incantation that I can use to clean out all
the dross? Not that it's bothering me (yea, right) but as long as I'm in there,
I might as well clean them out.
 
Thanks in advance!
 
=             Mike Vealey            |\/|      University of Maryland        =
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="In the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, rangers are killing mule     =
= deer that have become hooked on junk food left over by tourists. Doesn't   =
= make sense. Shouldn't they shoot the tourists instead?"                    =
=                                                         -- Andrei Codrescu =
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