On Monday 16 December 2002 21.36, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 16 December 2002 06:01 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
get rid of a link. This is really stupid. How can a beginner be expected to guess that rm is the way to get rid of a link?
A link is a file. You use rm to remove a file. The deductive leap isn't that large
Say Anders...: How do I get rid of a member of a partitioned data set on my IBM 370 under MVS?
Having never worked directly with MVS I wouldn't know. I do know that IBM is pretty good with its interfaces, so it's probably a menu option. i vaguely remember seeing something in a roscoe menu, but it was too long ago, I can't be certain. If MVS commands anything like OS/400 it's probably something like wrkprtdtaset from the command prompt :)
Get my point?
Not really. Did you get mine? If the manual tells you that a symlink is just another file, and the section on files tells you that you remove files using 'rm', is it really necessary to repeat that piece of information in the section on symlinks? Are cross-references pedagogically bad?