I can't quite agree with you that Orrible comes from the Unix world. Those of us who have lived there for a while curse it's origins in the Mainframe world. Especially those of us who used Informix and have seen how well a database can be made to work in it's native environment.
One of my favourites is the SqlMinus buffer editor. Pop it open and you are in $EDITOR, save it and run it. Alas, it doesn't use a temporary file handle, the file name it saves the sql buffer to is afiedit.buf... In the local directory. Oh, you don't have permission to write there? Ooops. Oh, someone else already had one there? Double oops.
I could go on for a very long time. Maybe I will someday. [H]
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I can't quite agree with you that Orrible comes from the Unix world. Those of us who have lived there for a while curse it's origins in the Mainframe world. Especially those of us who used Informix and have seen how well a database can be made to work in it's native environment.
One of my favourites is the SqlMinus buffer editor. Pop it open and you are in $EDITOR, save it and run it. Alas, it doesn't use a temporary file handle, the file name it saves the sql buffer to is afiedit.buf... In the local directory. Oh, you don't have permission to write there? Ooops. Oh, someone else already had one there? Double oops.
I could go on for a very long time. Maybe I will someday. [H]