Dear Vixens and Reynards:

My boss just dropped an interesting one on me. I use the terms

"master" and "slave" in my app. He asked me to not use "slave" with

anyone else, presumably because of someone taking it wrong. I said

that I would see if I could come up with something.

So what can I use for alternatives? I have Web-searched to see

what others are doing and did not find anything that would fit for my

second case.

I use "master" and "slave" in two senses.

1) We have the Master Station from which the high-level

functionality of the system is done. We have various Slave Stations

which are used mainly for DE. The Master Station is also used for DE.

I have come up with "master" and "satellite". Reasonable?

2) The second one is puzzling me. I have forms with an (often)

key portion (master) and a non-key portion (slave). "key" and

"non-key" are awkward and do not communicate well to a non-IT

person. "parent" and "child" is not accurate. What do you suggest?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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