question on xedit 'help'

2010-07-24 Thread Tony Thigpen
When I type 'help' on the command line, I am getting the HELP TASK screen. My fuzzy brain says that in the past I would get the HELP XEDIT MENU screen since I am in xedit. Also, when I use 'HELP QUERY', I get the COMMANDS QUERY screen, not the help for xedit query. I think I am missing a setting

Re: SFTP versus FTPS

2010-07-24 Thread Tony Thigpen
But given that a lot of people don't believe or know that FTP is secure (they live in the distant past), they feel free to use sftp and ftps and 'secure ftp' interchangeably. I even saw a web browser incorrectly process an ftp:// URL, using binary transfers for text data, on the bogus

Re: InfoZIP ZIP/UNZIP: Updating the VM/CMS port

2010-07-24 Thread Al Dunsmuir
Hello Alan, On Friday, July 23, 2010, 5:16:48 PM, you wrote: On Friday, 07/23/2010 at 04:56 EDT, Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote: I still have no idea about SFS files (will have to spend some time reading the online docs). Support for those will likely come later (and

Re: InfoZIP ZIP/UNZIP: Updating the VM/CMS port

2010-07-24 Thread Richard Troth
Whatever you do, keep it a single token filename/fileid for the SFS and CMS references in zip space. But, yeah, support BFS too. On 2010-07-24, Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello Alan, On Friday, July 23, 2010, 5:16:48 PM, you wrote: On Friday, 07/23/2010 at 04:56 EDT,

Re: InfoZIP ZIP/UNZIP: Updating the VM/CMS port

2010-07-24 Thread Fran Hensler
Al - That is a god suggestion. I have replaced packages on my website with links to new version of some software. I'll do ot for InforZIP too. /Fran On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:37:42 -0400 Al Dunsmuir said: On Thursday, July

Re: InfoZIP ZIP/UNZIP: Updating the VM/CMS port

2010-07-24 Thread Al Dunsmuir
Hello Richard, On Saturday, July 24, 2010, 12:50:17 PM, Richard wrote: Whatever you do, keep it a single token filename/fileid for the SFS and CMS references in zip space. But, yeah, support BFS too. hint It would be really good to be having this discussion over in the InfoZIP forum.

Re: question on xedit 'help'

2010-07-24 Thread Schuh, Richard
Maybe your xedit profile is getting in the way. Try xedit fn ft fm (noprof and see if it is still screwed up. It works as you expected with my profile. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: question on xedit 'help'

2010-07-24 Thread Tony Thigpen
xedit . . . (noprof got me started in the right direction. I thought maybe it was a z/VM change. Found: 'set synonym help1 command help' It should have been: 'set synonym help1 help' I can't remember when I did this it's been so long ago. I have been using this profile for over 22

Re: question on xedit 'help'

2010-07-24 Thread Schuh, Richard
I know the feeling. Just last week, I had to fix a bug in a tool that is frequently used by many users. It had been in the program since it was written in the late 1980s. Since it was a display error that was data-dependant, I am surprised that is had not been noticed earlier. Regards,

Re: question on xedit 'help'

2010-07-24 Thread Tony Thigpen
My 'oldest bug' in a 'the program has not been changed' area was in 2000. The RPG program was written in the mid-70's at a school district. For some reason, it did not calculate the number of school days correctly for the leap year. I was the systems programmer and was called in because 'the VSE

Dougherty, Margaret is out of the office.

2010-07-24 Thread Margaret Dougherty
I will be out of the office starting 07/24/2010 and will not return until 08/02/2010. I will respond to your message when I return. *** IMPORTANT NOTE*-- The opinions expressed in this message and/or any attachments are those of the author