Menu passwords

[George Simon]

Can Menu Edit II assign different passwords to the same menu?
That's one thing I wish filePro menus could do.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stockler" <bob at trebor.iglou.com>
To: "Filepro 2 List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: Menu passwords


>
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:31:51PM -0400, GCC Consulting wrote:
> |
> | Is there an easy way, without sending it to fpsupport, to remove a menu
> | password?
>
> Get a free, fully functional (but time-limited) demo of
> MENU EDIT II.  It works on UNIX, Linux and Windows.
>
> When using it and bringing up a filePro User Menu to edit:
>
>   [P] in the lower right corner of the Main Menu Screen indicates
>   the Menu has a password.  Typing [P] at the Main Menu Screen will
>   initiate the Password Manager, by which passwords may be assigned
>   for, changed or removed from a Menu.
>
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>
> In the meanwhile, filePro User Menus consist of three (or
> less, according to the version of filePro on which they
> were created on) newline separated records.  The last of
> these records is the password (alone by itself).
>
> An exception is if the first character in the menu is a
> newline character (the first character in a menu file tells
> "runmenu" in which element is the last of the possible 24
> to be displayed - it's possible for it to be a newline
> character, so there would apparently be four records).
>
> On UNIX/Linux you could do:
>
>   wc -l menu_name
>
> and, if it returned 3, you could do:
>
>   gawk '
>    NR==1 { print }
>    NR==2 { print } ' menu_name > new_menu_name
>
> or, if it returned 4, do:
>
>   gawk '
>    NR==1 { print }
>    NR==2 { print }
>    NR==3 { print } ' menu_name > new_menu_name
>
> In either case, then bring up "new_menu_name" in dmakemenu
> and save it, then test bringing it up.
>
> If that doesn't work, try my first suggestion.
>
> Bob
>
> PS - I'm pretty sure any flavor of AWK would work in place of
>      the "gawk" suggested above, but I'm _sure_ it works.
>
> --
> Bob Stockler - bob at trebor.iglou.com
> Author: MENU EDIT II - The BEST Creator/Editor/Manager for filePro User
Menus.
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