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#Menu Interface?

    05-Sep-90 08:34:54
Sb: #21371-#Menu Interface?
Fm: Bill Mayhew [VAX/DECPC] 76702,502
To: David Cressey 73230,1665
David, You're absolutely right to suggest "consider the market". I must not have been clear… what I would want to do is a generic MS-DOS version that would run on any MS-DOS machine (though I would certainly not be averse to any Rainbow-specific enhancements ;-}). I'm not sure what specs for the menu compiler *exist* at this point. That aspect of the product has been pretty much frozen for several years now since it has been determined that it really offers NO advantage over just keeping the menus in plain-text form, and interpreting them. That might not be true in the memory-constrained MS-DOS environment, though. I'll have to do some checking around but I am not optimistic that I will find much of anything. (We bought that portion of the product from another company and I think all we got was code, no specs.) -Bill