enter creation password when lookup with qualifiers?

[Bruce Easton]

joe at magnatechonline.com wrote Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:36 PM:
 
[..]
> 
> if you're talking about storing all this information in an additional
> file (aside from prc & tok), then may as well add another thing to that
> file - which automatic table is to be associated with the particular
> prc table.
> 
> --
> -Joe Chasan-                           Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.

Important point that I was not clear on.  I was thinking the approved 
list of files would be contained somehow in the tok table.  So my prior 
statement that runtime programs would just be stripped of checking for 
creation password could be done, but only if it were replaced with 
the runtimes knowing from the toks (or some new external encoded file) 
that certain file lookups had been pre-approved.  So, in essence, 
from where we are now:

CREATION:
At attempt to save table - check lookups - prompt literally-named lookups
  for any file with a creation password (CP) 
  save table only if any prompted questions answered w/correct password(s)
RUNTIME:
Prompt for any variably-named lookup file w/CP
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      we could augment as follows:
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CREATION:
Allow user w/hot key to enter one or more filenames to pre-authorize 
  variably-named runtime lookups if evaluated to those files.
  (clerk prompts for the CPs for those files as they are requested.)
  (Only in memory at this point.)
At attempt to save table - check lookups - prompt literally-named 
  lookups for any file with a creation password (CP).
  If successful - and file tokenized, then encode tok with files 
  that were requested and pre-authorized in dialog above.
RUNTIME:
Prompt variably-named lookups for creation password IF it has not 
  been pre-authorized and encoded in the tok.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.