Another thing I've found that not many have bothered to find is that
WRKLNK DETAIL(*NAME)
shows the entire long name which can be very handy.
Peter
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2017 4:18 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: [IE] Re: Who knew you could do that with DSPF?
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:49 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This brings up the same interface as using option '2' against a
directory from WRKLNK. Normally I find that a slightly more natural
way to get there rather than DSPF.
I would emphasize the "slightly". I guess if you think EDTF is more "natural" than DSPF, then option 2 from WRKLNK makes some sense. But it is definitely not intuitive to me that either one can even be used on a directory. Ask a Unix person if it would ever occur to them to invoke vi on a directory. Or the 'more' command on a directory. (Or perhaps it's the fact that using option 2 allows you to pretend that it's NOT the EDTF command, and THAT makes option 2 more natural?)
For that matter, WRKLNK is already not that intuitive to me. Back when I was teaching myself DOS, the term "link" in a file system context never came up. Even when I was being taught Unix at university, we rarely talked about links, and when we did, it was virtually always regarding symbolic links, not hard links. So I would never have guessed WRKLNK in a million years. (Huh? You want me to work with shortcuts? What? And now that I'm on this screen, it doesn't even show the symlinks?) But I got used to it eventually through repetitive use.
Now I wish someone had told me I can use EDTF or DSPF from the beginning, so that by now, I would be used to it.
John Y.
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