CompuServe Messages

Carl, Re: multiple languages, correct. For the record I'm not *really* talking about *compiled* menus. What I'm talking about is more aptly described as "preprocessed-to-binary" menus, as opposed to a scheme where the text must be interpreted by the menu processor from plain-text form. So we're not really talking about any impact on a .EXE file… the menus would still be stored in an external data file, it's just a question of whether the data file contains human-readable data or not. True compilation would mean generating machine code… this is more like generating binary data, but the compiler/interpreter model of understanding seems to fit so well that I use the word "compiled". Experience has shown me that the amount of time required by the menu processor to handle compiled menus is *so* trivially different from that required to handle plain-text menus, that it's not worth the bother of maintaining the menu "compiler" (and, of course, maintaining the "compiled" forms of the menus themselves!). -Bill