filepro menus and Ctrl-S - maybe Anzio setting?

[flowersoft at compuserve.com]

A couple of things have not been mentioned which might throw some light on
this problem.
First, the menu options work perfectly in SCO Unix.  Maybe something
happened when the programs were transferred to the Linux box, but everything
else seems to be working perfectly.
Second, the menu behaves normally if called from the command line or
dpromenu.  In other words, if you type p menuname from the command line, no
problems.  If you run it from the G option of the filePro menu, no problems.
It is only when the menus with 19 lines are called from another filePro user
menu, that the problem occurs and the problem is that Anzio locks the
keyboard.  You can see it on the last line of the screen.  Anzio displays
LOCK on it.  Hitting Alt U, unlocks the keyboard and the menu works
normally.
So it is something that Anzio is doing but what is triggering it is the
million Dollar question.

-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com]
On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 6:30 PM
To: Bruce Easton
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: filepro menus and Ctrl-S - maybe Anzio setting?

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Bruce Easton wrote:

> OK - let me try to simplify:
> 
> The behavior on the client menu is that it freezes as soon as the menu 
> is run from option G - and only for the menus that have 19 options on
them.
> 
> In my investigation of this (not even on the client's site by the way, 
> but on one of our Linux boxes), I went into vi and notice this 
> correlation about this control char visible at the top and the number of 
> options.  Nothing is freezing up during my investigation.
> 
> At this point, I'm sure there must be some problem with the termcap, OS 
> terminal configuration, something other than filepro or Anzio - it has 
> to be.
> 
> In my inital post I say:
> 
> "The first character on each of these menus is a Ctrl-S."
> 
> Not exactly sure how to be any clearer about that part - well it's only
once at the top of the file.
> 
> Since I'm seeing these control characters for the first time in vi,
> it would be helpful to know - does filepro put the control character there
or not?
> 
> I see you're now talking about vim which I will try.

If I understand your clarification, it is NOT that the user is typing 
ctrl-S, it's that a menu file that happens to SHOW a ctrl-S (if you open 
it in an editor, which is not recommended) somehow causes a problem. 
Right?

If that is true, and IF filePro somehow displayed (output) that ctrl-S, 
then it is possible that this causes a problem with Anzio (and not with 
PuTTY).

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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