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USING VPLUS/V AN INTRO. TO FORMS DESIGN Self-Paced Training Guide

SPECIFY A FORMS FILE NAME 

Once the RUN command is accepted, FORMSPEC clears the screen, then
displays the Forms File Menu shown in Figure 2-2, which is always the
first menu displayed by FORMSPEC. Before you can create or modify any
forms, you must specify the name of the forms file.  The forms file name
must be a valid MPE file name, which means it has up to eight characters,
of which the first must be alphabetic.  FORMSPEC accepts a fully
qualified file name, which can include the group and account in which the
file is stored, as well as any lockwords assigned for security.

Syntax 

     filename{/lockword][.groupname[.acctname]]

With up to eight characters per name, and the three separators (slash and
periods) you can see that if you specify the fully qualified file name,
it can take up to 36 characters.  This is why the field for the forms
file name is so long.

Action 

Use ORDFORM1 for the name of the file to contain your forms file.  Type
in the file name, as shown in Figure 2-2, and press ENTER.

Since this is a new forms file, a message is displayed (replacing the
menu title) that states:

File does not exist.  Press ENTER to create file. 

Action 

Press ENTER again as the message directs.


          Figure 2-3.  The Main Menu 

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