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To users of VMS DCL Menu

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From: Harry Flowers
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 23:59
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Some notes for those using my VMS DCL Menu system:

1) There's a bug introduced in 2.3 that continued in 3.0.  Basically, the
   prompt string keeps growing every time you get the menu screen until
   you get an error that loops until you break out.  It's fixed in V3.1,
   which I just posted to vmsnet.sources, so it should be showing up
   there within a couple of weeks.  I think I lost some of my remaining
   hair tracking this one down, though the fix is simple.  Although I
   use my menu daily, I hadn't stayed in it through enough options to
   run into the problem before Jasper Rees reported it to me this week.

2) If you make much use of DCL symbols, you'll probably want/need to set
   the SYSGEN parameter CLISYMTBL to its maximum value of 500.  You'll
   have to get your system manager to do this (if he hasn't already).

3) Sometime within the next few months when I get a few days to work on
   it, I'm planning on doing some major work on it.  One of the things
   will be to make it easy to upgrade in the future (I keep thinking
   "this is the last version, anyway").
--
Harry Flowers                           Internet: FLOWERS@MEMSTVX1.MEMST.EDU
Memphis State University                & Bitnet: FLOWERS@MEMSTVX1
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From: flowers@memstvx1.memst.edu (Harry Flowers)
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Subject: To users of VMS DCL Menu
Message-ID: <1992Aug5.175942.2962@memstvx1.memst.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 92 23:59:42 GMT
Organization: Memphis State University
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