Subj : Macros
To   : SEAN DENNIS
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jan 23 2020 12:35 am

Sean,

SD>The lack of macros.  I have a specific use for them and nano doesn't have
SD>that capability.  I post a lot in the COOKING echo and I post a lot of
SD>recipes.  Since I use Meal-Master, a DOS-based recipe manager, I have the
SD>macros programmed to put MM's exported recipe text file through dos2unix,
SD>then read the recipe into the message, and finally add my signature to the
SD>message.  It's easier for me to just use the macros to do all of that.

  Speaking of macros, a former local area Sysop and former ham radio
operator, had set up a long password with high ascii characters with
regular numbers and letters. The thing was, if he didn't have it as a
macro, he'd never remember it.

  Before Janice and I got engaged and married, I had come to visit her
at her apartment (where I eventually moved to until a year before my
Mom's death last August), and I went to logon to the BBS...which was
still at what was my parents place (it's mine now). Anyway, I was so
used to logging on with a macro, that when I connected, the software I
was using entered the user ID and password in one whack.

  Well, I got to the logon prompt, hit the macro, and nothing happened.
Then, it hit me.

  "You're not at the host console. You don't know your own password. You
can't logon to your own BBS"!! :P

  Salted crow, and humble pie, anyone?? <G>

Daryl


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