Any undisclosed "fixes" that might be in the 5.6 release?

[John Esak]

Hi,

For example. A while back, Ken, I asked you why a windows system couldn't do
the same trick I do on Unix to build screens, output formats, even files
using redirection? You said there was a difficulty in Windows and one of the
system calls probably wasn't allowing this, but there might be some other
call or way to do it...  Did you ever investigate this?  Could it do-able
now on the 5.6?
#change fiscal year screens and outputs...
#year must be 4 digits 2004, 2005
year=$1
export year

cd /u/appl/filepro/nexar.rep.f

#screen.1
echo "nexar.rep.f" >/tmp/newformat
echo "1_$year" >>/tmp/newformat
echo "c1" >>/tmp/newformat
echo "y" >>/tmp/newformat
echo "x" >>/tmp/newformat
dscreen < /tmp/newformat 1>/dev/null

The same technique applies to dmoedef and by building new yearly screens or
whatever is needed periodically, we use this method to get around checksum
issues, and do the transformation in a script so regular users can do it,
etc.

John