fp wishlist request #10001

[Nancy Palmquist]

Joe Chasan wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:28:51AM -0800, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> 
>>Is there a setting so that If somebody is at the selection set and hits 
>>"S" the computer asks "are you sure you want to save?" because normally on 
>>all other places the "S" is for Select.
>>I we keep killing selection files all the time and have to restore them 
>>from tape.

I certainly agree and have complained about this for decades.  I have 
written over many selection tables and continue to do so too often myself.

If those programmers at filePro actually wrote code for a living, they 
would have been annoyed enough to at least add a "File exists save 
anyway option?" to the S-Save for selections.

That would be enough to save me a lot of grief.

Nancy

> 
> 
> This was a MAJOR design flaw from the time they first did it, i'm sure
> it's bitten all of us at one time or another.   what are the chances they'll
> change it now, now that so many people have gotten used to doing it
> that way?  i don't know...
> 
> if you really need selection sets (remember, with dreport you can
> use -v prc_table instead), the ones you don't want overwritten with - go 
> to os-level and muck with permissions to make them read-only.
> 
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