Re: "extract" command enhancement

[John P Carr <jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Said;
>Not wild about that one Hans - for one thing I don't think I'd ever be able
to
>remember it <bg>.  It's just too arcane. One of the things I was trying to
>suggest with %Part - %Segment - %Subfld - %Item was that the portion
extracted
>depended on the *D or whatever that was coded - I don't see that the BIF
needs
t>o have a strong association with date/time/timestamp per se.  Who knows -
there
>may be other things we want to extract components from in future - why tie
it to
>DTZ

Jon,   You not looking down the road and thinking that some "Generic" like
BIF
could manipulate, or "Play with"     Java type thingys are you ??

John Carr
EdgeTech



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