8.13 Menudef Restrictions

Menudef has the following restrictions:

gifs/20000000.gif No more than 10 menus in one menufile.

gifs/20000000.gif No more than 78 characters in Choice Names.

gifs/20000000.gif No special characters in a Choice Name.

gifs/20000000.gif No more than 16 lines of 78 characters in commands.

gifs/20000000.gif Leading blanks and tabs are removed from commands.

gifs/20000000.gif No special characters in commands.

gifs/20000000.gif The order of choices and background text in the menufile is not preserved.

gifs/20000000.gif The format of the row and column numbers of choices and back ground text in the menufile is not preserved.

gifs/20000000.gif No more than 15 characters in an environment variable.

gifs/20000000.gif No more than 100 parameter forms in one menufile.

gifs/20000000.gif Parameter forms are not allowed in menufile command or menu commands.

gifs/20000000.gif Parameter forms may not be invoked within the commands of a menu choice. When creating a parameter form for a menu choice using menudef, the first command for the menu choice is internally assigned as the command to invoke the parameter form.