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>essentially runs them through the prompter in batch.

Al, I'm guessing that you do this interactively using a macro?  If so,
how do you catch the ones that fail?

- Dan

--- Al Barsa <barsa@barsaconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> I've used this command, and it does a good, but not perfect job.  On
> each
> release, I retrieve all of the commands on the system, and then run
> the
> source through my own code that essentially runs them through the
> prompter
> in batch.  99% prompt properly, but there is that less than 1% that
> fails.
> The other advantage of running them through the prompter is that they
> take
> considerably less disk space.  What Dave essentially does is put each
> parameter on it's own source line, which adds considerably to the
> size of
> the source members.
>
> Al

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