> I'm really actually astonished that anyone would come up with this >idea, unless they've spent no time thinking about it, or had no experience >programming. Not to offend - it just seems like this was a suggestion >designed to cause the most number of possible problems. It's like saying >Oasis should just use shell commands to manually edit the files, and be >smart enough to know which commands it has access to (dos/*nix, etc). > I can see that this thread is going nowhere fast No offense taken...I've been coding professionally now for about 10 years (mostly in RPG in case you were wondering) and have seen many people take a very simple situation and attempt to make it overly complicated when the answer to the question is sitting in front of them screaming at them. As if they need to complicate matters to impress their peers or exacerbate some absent bravado within themselves. Not to offend either, but the solution seems to present itself, and not in as complicated a manner as you are making it out to be. Again unless I am misunderstanding exactly what it is you are trying to accomplish or you are misunderstanding exactly what it is I am proposing. So I'll just forget about it. I hope however that you can come up with your solution (and I'm sure you will) because it seems like a very interesting project. Good luck and happy coding. Regards, Scott -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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