Why do LISTF or LIST-FILES commands not exist?
These commands seem to be the first thing that anyone tries on jBASE. In fact we have decided to implement a form of these commands in a future release because of this. However, the reason that these commands do not exist is that they rely on an entry for each hashed file in the MD of an account. Firstly, jBASE does not require that you have an MD unless you want a file called MD in which to place PROC commands. Secondly, we do not have entries in an MD for files as this would mean that you could not just pick them up in the File manager or explorer and place them in a different directory or even different computer. You would have to mess around with the MD entries in all accounts where you wanted to see the file. With jBASE, you set the Environment Variable JEDIFILEPATH, to include all the directories (local or remote shares), where you think there might be hashed files and jBASE does the rest. We think that the LISTF type commands are a small price to pay for this feature. A future r
