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From: easton@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Jeff Easton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Novell Menu Bug?
Message-ID: <664046861wkn21304@edmund.cs.andrews.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 17:27:41 GMT
Reply-To: easton@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Jeff Easton)
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Organization: Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan
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OK, here's a question for all you novell.net.experts...

  I am setting up a Novell 2.15c network for a department at the 
local University.  Since many of the people using it are computer 
illiterate, I set up the Novell Menu utility to run automatically at 
login time via the EXIT "MENU xxx" command in the system login script.

  One of the menu choices is Logout.  The manuals infer that the Logout
command be preceeded by a exclamation mark, ie, !LOGOUT to allow the
menu command to close and delete its batch files before pulling the rug
out from under itself.

  The problem is that this version of the menu program (v1.23) does not
  interpet the ! prefix and passes the whole thing to the command line 
  where is fails (because there is no !LOGOUT command).

  I have this setup on a older version of netware (v2.15) with a menu 
version of 1.22 and it runs as advertised.  Is there a new prefix that
must be used for the newer Netware?

  Of course, if I delete the exclamation mark, then when the user logs out,
the menu does send the proper command and the user is logged out.  But then
weird things usually happen, like computer lockups.

  For reference, the workstations are a mix of ZDS computers running 
MS-DOS 4.01 and 3.3+.

  Any ideas?

-- 
	Jeff Easton			Zenith Data Systems
	Systems Engineer		OEM Engineering
	easton@andrews.edu
	Witty Quote:  I break for Otters