What's the best way...

[Chris Sharman]

>This sort of need doesn't come up very often which is why we don't have mode
>based security. It's been a nice to have but not a killer.

Well, nearly everyone seems to have their own fixes, of varying nastiness.
Even when you've done all that procedural coding (which we all bought
Powerhouse in order to avoid), you still have to give write access to the data
to all the readers to allow Quick to open the files, so the knowledgeable can
still exploit that to alter/trash the data by other means if you're not careful.

There's a lot to be said for having Quick work in readonly mode when it can't
open the data files read/write. That would get rid of all this horrible code
and the potential security hole, and give us all screens that worked either
way. To preserve existing behaviour you could add an "ALLOWREADONLY" keyword or
similar to the screen or file statement.

"Nice to have" is what it's all about with a premium product, I think.

BTW, nice to see REVERSE is present in all 8.x components: any other
corrections to my post of gains & losses for VMS 7->8 ?

Chris
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Chris Sharman			Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk
CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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