simulating input popup default for clerk/report

[Joe Chasan]

i recently discovered an "undocumented limit" to variables used with
input popup - no matter how much screen real estate you have for the
prompt, the data gets cut off at 70 characters.

i have an app with: 
input popup mail_to "Enter Email Address:\n" default SOME_VAL

SOME_VAL comes from reference files where length is 77 characters.
Users use all 77 characters and put in mutliple email addresses into
same field.

My problem is the truncating.

for example
default field in file will contain a value like:
john at site.com,bill at site.com,henry at site.com,george at site.com,larry at site.com

but input popup will truncate this to:
john at site.com,bill at site.com,henry at site.com,george at site.com,larry at site

so the last email address gets munged.

I need a way to duplcate the "input popup default" functionality in both 
clerk and report.

if it were only clerk, a popup update screen might work, but with need for
report too that's not an option.

i thought about a regular input statement with a pushkey to put data
in there, followed by [HOME] key, but input does not seem to respect
the [HOME] key.  Trying to emulate this with calculated # of [CLFT]
isn't pretty either.

ideas?

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-Joe Chasan-                           Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
joe - at - magnatechonline -dot- com   Hicksville, NY - USA
http://www.MagnatechOnline.com         Tel.(516) 931-4444/Fax.(516) 931-1264