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
More information about the Filepro-list
mailing list