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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 > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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