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to: Marc Lewis
from: Mike Christian
date: 1998-04-05 21:25:48
subject: Macro conversions.

On Apr 04 Marc Lewis sez to All:


ML> Hello All!

Hey Marc,

Gee I haven't seen you since Wednesday 


ML> I have for quite some time been using timEd for most of my message 
ML> work while at my node computer.  In the very good possibility that 
ML> Gerard will refuse to correct the Y2k bug in it (and NetMgr) 
Bummer,  I use NetMgr to sort my mailing lists :-(


ML> I use some key macros that are quite important to my operation and 
ML> am wondering if there will be a way to convert some of them to work 
ML> with Msged. 
There is no direct conversion that I know of, Marc, but most of what you
want to do I believe can be done in MsgEd. Thee are a few quirks in MsgEd's
macro feature that I haven't quite figured out (and some seem to be version
dependent), however basically you use text for text messages and hex scan
codes for stuff like function keys, carriage returns, etc. The older docs
(like in the old DOS releases) used to cover this, but the latter docs
don't seem to. To be honest, I can't recall exactly WHERE I found the hex
codes, but here's some examples of what MsgEd can do (taken from my
Msged.cfg file):

;function 0 special startup macro
;function 1 thru function 10 for F1-F10 keys
;function 11 thru 20 for SHIFTED F1-F10
;function 21 thru 30 for CTL F1-F10
;function 31 thru 40 for ALT F1-F10
;NOTE F11 &above keys not supported
;semicolon comments out line
;Examples

function 21 cc:  Al, Art, Ben, Ian, Nick, Staff

;generates cc's to the listed Aliases by entering the text
; cc: followed by the addresses of the aliases (internal Msged feature)
; I press  whle in the first line of text of the message

function 23 cnet{at}unl.edu
; used to address mail to a list, simple text entry while at the TO: field

function 31 ^t
;deletes word with 

function 32 \0x25
;deletes to end of line with  * Origin: Mike's Point of Confusion (1:396/17.4)
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