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From: JXS118@PSUVM.BITNET (Jeff Siegel, St Operator@Atherton Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx,psu.vm.rexx
Subject: Programming style
Message-ID: <89320.222332JXS118@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 17 Nov 89 03:23:32 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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I wasted a significant amount of time today trying to figure out why a user's
virtual machine was acting completey wacko. Turns out that they had
accidently created a file named Q EXEC. So whenever any rexx program did
a query, as in:

'Q Disk'

it wound up executing Q EXEC instead, which created a lot of confusion.
I think it would help everyone in the VM/CMS / Rexx community if people
wrote 'CP QUERY ...' (which is what they really mean) than some abbreviation
that can be misconstrued by the system. It certainly would have saved me the
time today.

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