Jeff,

It took me a while to think of some cases where this enhancement could come
in handy and I'd say 'go for it'.

Since everyone is taking advantage of this opportunity for some additional
requests how about one more:

I'd like a function that would return a random string of alternating
constants and vowels (similar to MPEX).  I would use it to secure MPE users
that were left without passwords.
   altuser user.account;pass=![randomname()]


Paul Christidis
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Subject: Re: SHOWVAR enhancement
Author:  Tim Ericson <[log in to unmask]> at CCGATE
Date:    05/05/98 13:53


Michael D. Hensley wrote:

<snip>

> While your at it, Jeff: how about :LISTEQ;JOB=?

Oooh! - and how about LISTFILE @.@,TEMP;JOB= ?

> I do agree that building a debuging/logging facility into the
> program is a far better solution.

Yup.

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