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From: "Scott Caissie" <scottac@nb.sympatico.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: lock down COMMAND & Re-writing Help
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2 situations here.
1. Help with security here.
I'm looking at a few things to secure the software a bit, which'll cause the
user to not accidently damage anything.
Is there any way possible to prevent a user from typing anything in the
COMMAND window? And I don't mean SET TERMINAL ESCAPE-CHARACTER DISABLED.
That does prevent them from reaching the command window but regardless of
that, invoking macros (definition macros) will change the screen. During
that fraction of a second of loading, it is possible for a user to type
something and have it appear in the prompt. This will prevent a proper
execution of the macro. Its rare but I want a way to fix that.
I'm now adding a number of things at the very beginning of my macros that
might clear whatever is there:
ECHO
CLS
probably going to put \13 (enter) there as well.
But I do not know the order of how things are processed to know if it'll
make a difference.
I have some doubts that the macro itself can clear the junk characters.
I have a lot of doubt about preventing a user from ever typing in the
COMMAND window. Could be possible. Don't know how yet.
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2. The help window (Alt H). Can this be edited in any way? I'd like to
modify it so that it has actual work info in it. We don't actually use
hotkeys at all.
Any chance of allowing us to create windows like that?