filepro menus and Ctrl-S - maybe Anzio setting?

[Bruce Easton]

I wanted to see this first-hand, so I loaded demo of latest Anzio Lite onto
this vista partition, accepting, I think all the defaults, and saying 
yes to
older SCO mode question.  Very easy install.  And filepro's dpromenu came
up in color beautifully.   Found one of the 19-option menus that had
been adjusted to less than 19 lines and put it back to 19 lines.

Sure enough, works OK from prompt or from option G on dpromenu,
but from a calling menu - as George said, 'LOCK' appears at lower
right and you have to key Alt-U to be able to navigate/select anything.

(fp 5.0.14 by the way)

Then things got really interesting.  I took a look around and found that
some of the filepro executables (including dmakemenu, runmenu) did
not get the SUID bit set correctly from the setperms prog.  So I
referenced another Linux box, did an "ls -l|grep rws" standing in fp and 
lib
to help refresh my memory and proceeded to fix these perms.
Well that did not help.

I then found another system with that same problem menu
(Linux); ported it over and did a sum on the two menus (which visually
when run looked exactly the same - incl title, ver).  One returned 27672
and the other returned 32887. So I thought maybe the problem one
was just corrupt.  If I pointed the source menu to the newly ported 
version,
it did not have Anzio turn lock on.

Then I looked at the perms on the problem menu file itself. It was 777.
I thought that it didn't need and probably should have that - it was
already owned by filepro, so I changed it to 600.  Boom.  It no
longer had a problem!  So for kicks, I changed the perms on the
newly ported menu to 777 and walla - Anzio started turning the lock
on on that menu.  (And by the way - this all as far as I can tell happens
on menus with 19 items, but i'm suspicious that maybe this is the only
obvious side-effect and that these ctrl chars in all menus are not
being treated properly - I mean we know these files are all supposed
to have one of those chars at the top right?)

If that's not enough (and it really oughtta be), I then noticed that
if I edited any menu on the system and used F5 to go into the
script and then Del to cancel, I did not come back to the edit session
of the menu, but was blown all the way out to dpromenu.  So at this point,
just to make sure, I ported from another working Linux-fp5.014 box
runmenu, dmakemenu and menupass and put them into place
temporarily to see if that would get rid of that problem - no go.
(But I realize I may have compounded the situation by not porting
a complete set, so I restored what was there.)

I also re-saved the problem menu once it had 'correct' perms, but
it did not change its size which is still different than the other
one that looks and behaves the same way under the same
circumstances, but has a different size.

During all of this, without injuring me or my cat, I was also
trying out different emulations.  To try out linux for instance,
I had to set it in Anzio, then set TERM and also the config
file on this system where they have a PFTERM=cansi.  None of
that made a difference with this problem, and didn't change
much with the terminal behavior.  It all just looked the same
(and nice) through Anzio.   Finally, just for kicks - I did an
'stty sane<ret>' and that didn't change anything except I
then had to start using Ctrl-C instead of the Del key to
cancel.  (And if I then tried to use the Del key, I'd get a
little character that looks like the outline of a monopoly
house from the front.)

Anyway, that's what I tried - maybe this will ring a bell with
someone.  So, as it stands, if the perms of menu files (not the
scripts) are 600, then they are OK.  But, with that unexpected
behavior in define menus  - blowing all the way out from the
script, I'm suspicious of the health of the filepro executables
for this particular install  - maybe something got corrupted.
Probably best at this point to re-install filepro.


Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.


On 12/9/10 12:46 PM, flowersoft at compuserve.com wrote:
> P menuname
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 9:17 AM
> To: flowersoft at compuserve.com
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: filepro menus and Ctrl-S - maybe Anzio setting?
>
> On 12/9/2010 12:03 AM, flowersoft at compuserve.com wrote:
> [...]
>> 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,
> How, exactly, are you calling the menu from another?
>
> [...]
>