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  3. August 2002

Re: It's That Time Again! The 2002 RPG Enhancement Poll

Just a thought, what if you took this prefixing requirement and worked in
the alias ability that is also on the wish list so that one file may have
xxCUST and the other file has yyCUST but both files have an alias of CUST
and the alias could be used in the data structures?


> > From: Douglas Handy
> >
> > I started a practice back on the S/34, where each physical file has a
> unique
> > 2-character prefix used in all field names for that file.  This
> > helped to avoid
> > name collissions since we did not have qualified DS naming.  Thus
> > one file might
> > have fields xxCUST and xxNAME while the next has yyCUST and yyNAME, etc.
> >
<<snip>>

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