Re: Programming Command - CMD

Fiona,

My original posting indicate "No SUBFILE".  Thanks 4 ur input.

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: <fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: Programming Command - CMD


>
> To be dynamic, you are going to have to look up the files within a library
> at the time of prompting.
> I agree that it would be a waste of time to hardcode filenames,
> but the only way I can suggest of achieving a promptable list is to have
> the command
> prompt the user if the second parameter is blank - perhaps cued by a
> validity checker pgm ?
>
> Then your prompt pgm will receive the library parm,
> populate a file list from this (PFs only ?)
> and present the user with a list of possible files.
> Why not use a subfile for this - isn't that what they're for ?
> Best of luck, commands are fun,
>
> Fiona
>
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