Re: Calling User-menu from within 4GL application?
Posted in 1992
In a previous article I submitted: >My users want to be able to access the User-menu function from >within a 4GL application menu. When the application menu shows and many others responded: >Add to your menu something like > > command "User-menu" > run "isql -s dbase -u reports" and Don retorts: > If you have the Turbo -er ah, On-board, er ah what are the marketing > reptiles calling it these days? :-) Oh yeah, On-Line engine there is > a bit of time consumed opening a new front/back end process. It should > be called the WALK command in this instance :-) > It hurts my head to know I didn't think of this solution on my own. But then, on the Sun3 I *was* using it wouldn't have been practical, for the reason Don mentions. Now that we are on a Sparc 1 this was a viable solution. Thanks, everyone, for bringing me back to keeping simple things simple.