enter creation password when lookup with qualifiers?

[Brian K. White]

> So because of this limitation, currently I have no way to 
> password protect my utility programs for distribution 
> without an end-user being prompted for a creation password.

Did you get what I meant by writing out a process table?

Table A originally wants to lookup a variable file and do some work.
Can the work possibly be collected into a call table and run there?

If so:
* modify table A so that all the dynamic lookup work is done in one or more call tables.
* write a new table B which has a lookup using any file you want or a variable, just so it passes syntax check.
* at runtime table A determines it wants file foo.
* use a little readline/writeline or import/export loop to read table B and generate a new unique temporary table C. This loop can be a nice black box call table itself.
It's small enough to be fine even as a gosub.
* table C contains a litteral lookup to foo in place of whatever table B had
* call C


Result:
o table B can be developed/maintained in cabe naturally
  (no stack of zz="label:if...:then...:" in table A)
o foo can be unknown before runtime
o foo can have a creation password
o user will not get prompted for creation password

Since this is possible, I would say it makes the fp built in feature moot and so might as well be removed. It's not actually protecting anything. Is it? Am I missing something?

Ouch, snag... at run-time the user must either be running dclerk to call the temp table, or have rcabe available to tokenize the temp table before calling it.

I think call is by far the easiest to deal with here, but the same idea could also be done with both chain and system "clerk/report..." if there is some insurmountable problem with call, which is not fixed by fp 5.6 which can nest calls, assuming you can tolerate 5.6's rights management.

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