From The T.I.E.&M. Shop...
Dear SemWare,
I've been thinking lately of a new feature to add to TSE which may be helpful 
to most writers who use it.
But, at the moment, I can't think of it. Perhaps later I can remember just 
what that gold-plated jewel of an idea was...maybe TSE can (if at all 
possible) be given a macro which can reach out and pull in those runaway 
thoughts? :)
Just kidding, of course. This is actually the first message I have written 
using TSE with timEd, and I noticed right away that a memory problem popped 
up.
When I ran the SpellChecker macro on this message, I received an error 
message at the top of the screen, something like, "Too many nested 
ExecMacro()s. Press (ESCAPE)."
Upon pressing escape, the spell checker would move to the next line, and 
would again print the error message at the top of the screen.
The solution, of course, was to have timEd swap out of memory when it invokes 
TSE. Now the spell checker works fine, with no error messages.
I'm running timEd, TSE, and my node on a 1985 HeathKit H-148 8-mHz XT under 
PCDOS 7.0 and NDOS 6.01, with no memory boards. This is the reason for my 
memory limitation. I've tested almost all of the keyboard combinations with 
an 88-key keyboard with no grey keys, only 10 function keys, and a single set 
of Ctrl and Alt keys. The only keys which do not work thus far are the
CtrlAlt-numbers-across-the-top combinations, which seem to produce unusual 
effects, like blanking and unblanking the screen, and switching to the 
dos-screen...just won't use them :).
As far as I can tell, all of the macros work with this set up as well.
It's more enjoyable on the '386 under Windows, but it's a kick to see it work 
so well on an old machine. Now that it offers automatic wordwrap, as well as 
having a VERY fast spellchecker, it's a better choice than the timEd internal 
editor when I write messages locally, like this one. I can load other 
multiple reference files while I am writing a message, and the internal 
editor cannot do this.
As John Denver might say, "TSE is Far Out!"
Keep up the good work!
See you.
Larry
--- GEcho 1.20/Pro
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