Executing Winderz fP Menu Items

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting DataDoIt (Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:16:54 -0500):

> fPODBC
>
> In a *nix/fP menu script, you can execute other filePro menu items by
> referencing them as such:
>
> /fp/menus/admin.-1
>
> In a Winderz/fP menu script, trying something like:
>
> CALL c:\fp\menus\admin.-1
>
> Will launch Winderz file association prompt thing because it doesn't
> know which program to run to execute a '.-1' file.
> How can another menu script be referenced from a menu script in Windows
> filePro?

Windows batch files must have a ".bat" extension.

    copy c:\fp\menus\admin.-1 temp.bat
    call temp.bat
    del temp.bat

On an NT-class system (ie: NT, XP, 2000, 2003), you can avoid possible
collision with:

    set tempname=xx%RANDOM%.bat
    copy c:\fp\menus\admin.-1 %tempname%
    call %tempname%
    del %tempname%

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