On Mar 26, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Dave Salt wrote:
Ed,
Don mentioned in an earlier post that the ISPF editor is the 'gold
standard' (or something like that). He's not criticising the ISPF
editor, and he's certainly not the person who started this whole
thread about ISPF not being productive. Someone else posted a
message in which they said something like "ISPF was good in its
day", and Don responded by saying something like "It's still good
if you have the right tools". In other words, he came to the
*defence* of ISPF. He also said words to the effect of "it could be
better", and gave some examples. Personally, I think he's bang on
the mark.
Dave,
I guess I must have misread his entry.
In anycase I had a friend who was working on a web mail problem (long
story deleted) he could only delete 100 emails at a time. I told him
too bad he didn't have ISPF as he could have deleted all of them with
one command. I personally think its one step above the "gold
standard" Yes I know about ROSCOE and the others (Wylbur etc.) and
while they are OK once you learn them I found I kept wishing that I
had ISPF. So maybe it should be called the PLATINUM standard?
Ed
Dave Salt
SimpList(tm) - The easiest, most powerful way to surf a mainframe!
http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm
_________________________________________________________________
Fine Dining & Fancy Food. Check Out This Collection Of Good Eats.
http://local.live.com/?mkt=en-ca/?v=2&cid=A6D6BDB4586E357F!378
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
