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Dave Mills of The Nature Conservancy Council strikes again with yet another great menu tip. People frequently want the ability to run a pre process before calling a menu.

Dave makes the point that the security logic is called for a menu item before the item is displayed, so to pre-process a menu simply add a security level of @S Sub@ where Sub is a catalogued subroutine which always sets @Ans to true but also does any pre-processing you might require.

He also makes the point that the easiest way of keeping track of which menu is currently operative, is to set up a shell menu program that calls the proper menu program but that stores the current menu in labelled common. Make this menu driver the default and the desired result is obtained.