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From: florman@randvax.UUCP (Bruce Florman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MPW2.0 bug/feature
Message-ID: <1149@randvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 15:21:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: randvax.1149
Posted: Thu Oct  1 15:21:40 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Oct-87 04:57:43 EDT
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Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica
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> I have stumbled on an annoying bug or feature of MPW2.0 . When you create a
> menu item containing a multi-line command (eg. If), the Suspend/Resume
> scripts do not work properly. Suspend saves the user menu items by calling
> AddMenu without parameters. AddMenu writes the menu rebuilding commands with
> hard quotes (') around everything for security. With an If command, this gives
> something like:
> AddMenu 'MenuName' 'MenuItem' 'If condition
>     commands
>     end'
> with no deltas at ends of lines (actually deltas wouldn't help). Of course,
> this command with a hard-quoted string spread on several lines is not syntac-
> tically correct.
> In fact, the only way I have found to write such commands is to use "-quotes
> and to put deltas in front of all special characters. AddMenu is not smart
> enough to recreate that.

Try creating the menu item like this:

Addmenu MenuName ItemName 'If condition ; <delta>
	command ; <delta>
    end'

The semicolons are equivalent to EOLs.  When AddMenu writes the item out
to the SuspendState file, it will look like:

Addmenu MenuName ItemName 'If condition ; 	command ;    end'

This is syntactically correct.
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