Re: UC - User Controlled opens

I strongly agree with John on this.  I have done this many times for the
same reason, that being that you may never need one or more files so why
bother opening them.

However, I posed this question to John Sears. He stated flatly that he'd
skip the required logic and let the system open them all at program
startup.  He said it was more efficient but did not go into detail as to
how or why.

Hmmmmmmmm.

 Larry Bolhuis
 Arbor Solution, Inc
 lbolhui@ibm.net

John Carr wrote:
> 
> I'd agree with Pete and Eric in your particular case.  However don't stop
> using User Controlled opens completely.   If you have a file that may not
> "Logically" be used for the whole duration of the program,  Only open it
> once, the first time it's needed.  Like a file that is used only on an
> error condition, or something like that.  We have subfiles that may sort
> by 4 or 5 different logicals.  The user may (at anyone sitting) use only
> 1 or 2 and may never use the others at all that session.   I open them
> the first time the user uses that sort sequence and then leave them open.
> 
> Things like that there
> 
> John Carr
> EdgeTech
> Have Classes, will Travel
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