Old dog - new tricks

[GCC Consulting]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Howie
> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 2:23 PM
> To: filePro List
> Subject: Old dog - new tricks
> 
> FYI:
> 
> It's not too often that I learn of a feature that I didn't 
> know about in filepro but yesterday I did.
> 
> I think Joe Hirschman at Aljex discovered this one, I have no 
> idea if it is documented.
> 
> We needed to test some new code, running as a user, but when 
> the user logs in he is taken to a standard menu and cannot 
> escape to the shell.
> 
> We didn't want to change the menu without testing the new code.
> 
> It seems that if you create or modify a filepro menu (DOS or 
> UNIX) and add an entry that has  a  choice, but leave the 
> description blank and have an action - the resulting menu 
> does not show the choice but does allow you to stop on what 
> appears to be a blank entry and press enter to take the 
> hidden choice. You can also type in the choice to get to that 
> menu entry
> 
> I wouldn't leave it that way for long but it was enough for 
> us to test the new code before making it available to the user.
> 
> Bug or feature?  I don't know but it is cute
> 
> Howie
Tried this on native 5.0.14.  Did not work.

C
/fp/dclerk !!
test

I could no access the menu line as above.  If I placed a period in the
description field, it worked.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting