Multi-line menu entry

Mike Schwartz mschw at athenet.net
Fri Jun 24 18:36:44 PDT 2011


> Behalf Of Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants)
> 
> filePro 5.6.06 on Windows Vista.  I need to entry a menu command that is
> longer than the space provided on one line.  In Unix I can end a line with
\
> and continue the command on the next line.  When I tried that in Windows I
> get the following error:
> 
> Argument = \
> 
> Bad argument on command line.
> 
> Is it possible to have a multi-line menu command in a windows environment
> and if so what is the proper character to use at the end of the line.

    Try the carat at the end of the line.  (^)  As I recall that was a line
continuation character for DOS batch scripts, but I don't recall if it
worked on filePro menu 
lines.

line1^
line2^
line3

Mike Schwartz





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