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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 13:59:26 MST
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- From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: News from a newly non-computer-illiterate
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Message of Sun,
- 3 Jan 1993 14:42:15 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
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- On Sun, 3 Jan 1993 14:42:15 CST Natalie Maynor said:
- >
- >I assume you mean that you want to delete the old file from your mainframe.
- >Surely there's a delete command. What kind of mainframe is it?
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- well, if he's doing it on a CMS machine (ibm mainframe)....the command
- when looking at it on a filelist command is DISCARD....no abbreviations of
- the command allowed.
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- cyclops
-