Re: despair

On Sep 14, 3:45 am, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 09/13/07 23:26, AEF wrote:

Is the same tape in the drive every day?

Don't know.

Are there any more BACKUP commands in the rest of the procedure?

No. In fact there is no DEALLOCATE command.
Obviously the author is comfortable with letting
the end of the job deal with cleaning up.

Does it matter? Defensive programming says you defend against
hardware glitches other people's mistakes.

I find it painfully ironic that the author took the mechanism
intended for error TRAPPING and used it instead for
error GENERATION. What the hell was he thinking?
I'll never know.

P.S. Excellent poster, Brian!

ok
dpm

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