processing passwords?

[Fairlight]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:50:39AM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
> On 10/13/2012 1:21 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> >It's been a long, long time since I've seen it, but I seem to remember cabe
> >could ask for passwords for processing tables.  I have a few questions
> >about this:
> >
> >1) Are there separate processing passwords, or is that just a site password
> >on the table, but not in fppath?
> 
> Each processing table can have a processing password stored in it.
> If the processing password and the site password don't match, then
> filePro will require that you provide the processing password before
> allowing you to view/edit the file.
> 
> When you create a new processing table, filePro will "attach" the
> current site password to that table.  Starting with 5.0 (I believe),
> you can change the processing password using *cabe's F8/Options
> screen.

Is the processing password the same as the "creation password" input into
ddefine, or are these separate creatures?

If they differ, how do you set individual processing passwords?  I want to
try a few permutations and see the flow for myself.

> The Windows console API doesn't work on pipes (or "regular" files,
> either), returning an "invalid handle" error if you attempt to do
> so.  (And there's no way to pass anything other than standard ASCII
> though files or pipes. Yes, you can pass ESC and Enter, but you
> can't pass any F-key, or PageUp, for example.)
> 
> Try it yourself if you want.  Set PFNEWNTCONSOLE=OFF (a leftover
> from early testing of Windows code, which was never removed), which
> will cause filePro to use stdin/stdout rather CONIN$/CONOUT$.
> Everything should work normally if you don't redirect input, but
> filePro will get no input at all if you redirect stdin to a file or
> pipe.

Thanks for that!

mark->
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