Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Mike Schwartz]

     I have probably three (3) customers who still use MenuMaster.  All 3
are still on SCO Open Server, and may not want to migrate to Linux, although
this *is* one of the big things they don't want to deal with on Linux.

     I terms of money, none of the 3 would want to pay more than a couple of
hundred dollars for an upgraded version, though.  I approached them (and the
list) several years with the opportunity to purchase the original MenuMaster
(and Maestro, etc.) rights and code for $10,000.00, but I wasn't available
to gather enough support to do that.

Thanks,

Mike Schwartz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+mschw=athenet.net at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+mschw=athenet.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of Jay R. Ashworth
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 3:38 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)
> 
> Twofold: First, how many people still have one of the three versions of
> MenuWhatever deployed on production client sites -- specifically, how
> many sites?  The topic is, of course, that those binaries won't run on
> Linux without Linux-ABI, which doesn't seem to have been ported
> reliably to anything newer than 2.6.(9<x<11).  Almost all 2.6 based
> distros are past that, and given SCO's recent delisting warning again,
> I suspect that porting off of it will become a more promising looking
> approach -- *if* you don't have to port your menus back to filePro
> menus to do it.
> 
> (Off-list replies are fine if you don't want to divulge; I'm just trying
> to decide whether the effort of reimplementing it is worthwhile. (And
> yes, I know, we've had the "is it worth investing time in commercial
> products for the filePro audience" conversation before, as well as how it
> came out; let's skip the meta :-).))
> 
> 
> 
> Secondly, I'm doing a snap-port of our modified fourGen payroll to
> SuSE 10.2, where those old menus won't run, and my approach -- since
> only one employee would be in payroll at a time, was to emulate
> ':replace:', as follows:
> 
> ========
> # mmreplace - use perl to fake a MenuMaster :replace: command
> #
> # written Tue May  8 16:23:19 EDT 2007 by jra at microsys.us
> 
> [ $# = 3 ] ||
>         {
>         echo "usage: $0 filename line-label replacement
>         exit 1
>         }
> 
> # the regex ahead is:
> #
> # label:if:var="contents"  :
> # ''''','','''','''''''','',
> # \1    \2 \3   \4       \5
> 
> perl -pi.bak -e "
>         if (/^$2:/)
>           s/([^:]):([^:]):([^\"])\"([^\"])\"([^:]):/\1:\2:\3\"$3\"\5:/;"
> $1
> ========
> 
> 
> If that's *correct* (I'm not a perlmonk), anyone who finds themselves in a
> similar situation is welcome to it.  If it's *broken*, corrections would
> be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --
> Jay R. Ashworth
> jra at baylink.com
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