Creation password at runtime

[Brian K. White]

differences between your systems regarding length of password vs length of 
input box vs PFME ?
it's a long shot I know

whatever it is, it's an example of why I try to avoid relying on things like 
pushkey
pushkey is you writing some code that will hopefully interact successfully 
with an interactive program the way a person would.
I don't ever expect to be able to write code that really can take the place 
of a person. Or if I do I promise to remember all the little people as I'm 
accepting my Nobel :) (uless instead I'm running for my life from the 
militant religeous conservative hordes, or the teamsters unions, or the NSA, 
or ...)

... then again... I wonder if it isn't a better trade off all in all? you 
write some logic and it always does the same thing, inflexible and too 
stupid to hadle the slightest unexpected variation, (like needing to press 
enter again), but also, when it works it works absolutely, religeously, 
perfectly, every time.. vs the average screwup rate of people... hmm

that said, it's still necessary that it's there. I may only resort to 
pushkey as a last resort, but, you have here just such a last resort and 
Johns right that was slick :)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Simon" <GSimon at americanriverintl.com>
To: <john at valar.com>
Cc: "Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:04 PM
Subject: RE: Creation password at runtime


I just tried it in both SCO Unix and Windows and all it took was 1 [entr].
Why would it take 2 [entr] in your system?


George Simon Sr. Programmer
Information Technologies
American River International


-----Original Message-----
From: John Esak [mailto:john at valar.com]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:47 PM
To: George Simon
Cc: Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com
Subject: RE: Creation password at runtime


George,
That was simply briliant... good for you...  but, when I tried it... for
some reason it took 2 [ENTR]'s to work ????

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Simon [mailto:GSimon at americanriverintl.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:34 AM
> To: john at valar.com; Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com
> Subject: RE: Creation password at runtime
>
>
> Why couldn't a simple:
>
> video off
> pushkey "creationpassword"{"[entr]"
> lookup thefile = (fn)  k=1  i=a  -npx
>
> get around this problem?
>
>
> George Simon Sr. Programmer
> Information Technologies
> American River International
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> filepro-list-bounces+george=worldest.com at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+george=worldest.com at lists.celestial.com] On
Behalf Of John Esak
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:00 AM
To: Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com
Subject: RE: Creation password at runtime

You know, I hate to say it... but I was able to duplicate your problem with
a 10 second prc table and a pair of files.   W run many programs with
creation passwords... is it possible we never have used a hidden (variable)
in all this stuff. I wouldn't believe it... BUT, you're right, my old trick
of doing a regular (no-variable filename) to the same file somewhere on the
table did not help.  Good luck.

John

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