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system: You are Phlete_Teachout@Esd.Tracor.Com, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Something dumb?".

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assistant: From: Phlete_Teachout@esd.tracor.com
     If ignorance is bliss, I'm probably the happiest guy around.
     I can not get the following to compile.  I get the error message:
     "Error executing q &fm& -ecompress -equit" and I haven't the foggiest
     idea what it means.  Is there a list of error messages with
     explanations somewhere.  (Using newly installed ver 2.50d)
        lreplace("E","","gn")
        lreplace("&l2a0O","","gn")
        lreplace("(s0p16.67h4102T","","gn")
        lreplace("(s3B","","gn")
        lreplace("&d0D","","gn")
        lreplace("&d@","","gn")
        lreplace("&k0S","","gn")
        lreplace("(s0B","","gn")
        lreplace("","","gn")
        savefile()
        nextfile()
        (I notice my CC:Mail changes the ESC character to a black block, so
if
      you are seeing a black block, replace with decimal 027.
        Any help really appreciated.  This should have been easy.
                                        - fleet -
                                phlete_teachout@esd.tracor.com
system: You are Dieter Koessl, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "re: Key binding reporting".

They wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way (it will probably have to be internal) to have
> TSE report which keys are bound to which functions?

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assistant: From: Dieter Koessl <DieterKoessl@compuserve.com>
Hi Jim,
Well, I do have two macros which do just that. One displays the command
bound to a key and the other searches the key definitions for a string
(better regular expression). I wrote them for my colleagues which (at
least in the beginning) were a bit at odds with the keyboard assignments
I had invented.
I never uploaded them, because I didn't think there were a general
demand for that kind of thing and because they are a bit harder to use
and to configure than your usual garden variety of macro. They access
and search the UI configuration file to do their job, e.g. the UI file
must be installed on disk and it must be placed either in its default
directory or the macros must be adapted manually.
If there's any kind of general interest in my macros, I would be willing
to upload them and even write a short documentation.
Dieter
system: You are "James C. Sewell", a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "re: Key binding reporting".

They wrote:
>If there's any kind of general interest in my macros, I would be willing
>to upload them and even write a short documentation.

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assistant: From: "James C. Sewell" <jims@MPGN.COM>
At 11:57 AM 4/18/97 -0400 Dieter Koessl, whom God loves, said:
Dieter,
  I obviously an interested.  I think it could help a bunch in two ways.
One is what you mention with other users not knowing your key bindings.
The other is that I have so many functions that even *I* don't remember all
the mappings and my work-saving macros don't get used much for that reason.
  Please consider emailing the macros to me if there is not enough general
interest to make it worthwhile documenting them.  I'd like to see what you
have in either case.
  Thanks
    Jim
system: You are "Chris Antos (Exchange)", a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: Key binding reporting".

They wrote:
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From:	James C. Sewell [SMTP:jims@MPGN.COM]
> | Sent:	Friday, April 18, 1997 9:35 AM
> | To:	tsepro@semware.com
> | Subject:	re: Key binding reporting
> |
> | At 11:57 AM 4/18/97 -0400 Dieter Koessl, whom God loves, said:
> | >If there's any kind of general interest in my macros, I would be
> willing
> | >to upload them and even write a short documentation.
> |
> | Dieter,
> |   I obviously an interested.  I think it could help a bunch in two
> ways.
> | One is what you mention with other users not knowing your key
> bindings.
> | The other is that I have so many functions that even *I* don't
> remember all
> | the mappings and my work-saving macros don't get used much for that
> reason.
> |
> |   Please consider emailing the macros to me if there is not enough
> general
> | interest to make it worthwhile documenting them.  I'd like to see
> what you
> | have in either case.
> |
> |   Thanks
> |     Jim
> |

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assistant: From: "Chris Antos (Exchange)" <chrisant@Exchange.MICROSOFT.com>
i have trouble remembering some of my handy little macro keys, too.
so what i have done is two things, which work great for me.
1 - use the two-key combinations, so i only have to remember one key for
a whole bunch of commands.  for example:
<Ctrl M><Helpline>    "{A}-align {B}-bookmark {C}-chart etc..."
<Ctrl M><A>    align(...)
<Ctrl M><B>    bookmark(...)
<Ctrl M><C>    chart(...)
NOTE:  the "..." is just my way of saying "fill this in with whatever".
it's just an example to illustrate the idea.
2 - use a menu (my preferred way).  again, i only have to remember one
key for a bunch of commands.  for example:
menu FooMenu()
title = "handy stuff"
"&Align", align(...)
"&Bookmark", bookmark(...)
"&Chart", chart(...)
end
<Ctrl M>    FooMenu()
//chris
system: You are "Chris Antos (Exchange)", a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: accented characters".

They wrote:
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From:	oexel@economatica.com.br [SMTP:oexel@economatica.com.br]
> | Sent:	Friday, April 18, 1997 4:03 AM
> | To:	TSE Mailing List
> | Subject:	accented characters
> |
> | I'm posting this here although I guess this question has
> | more to do with Windows itself than with TSE;
> |
> | I'm from Brazil and we use a lot of accented characters
> | down here; I notice that when you cut a chunk of text from
> | a gui app (ex: Notepad) and paste it into TSE some special
> | kind of conversion takes place on accented characters;
> | if, on the other hand, you save the file in NotePad and open
> | it with TSE the characters are NOT converted;
> |
> | - does anyone know who is performing this conversion?
> | - is there a way to disable it?
> | - better yet: is there a way to make TSE use the same
> |   character set windows uses?
> |
> | TIA!
> |
> | Otavio Exel /<\oo/>\
> | oexel@economatica.com.br

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assistant: From: "Chris Antos (Exchange)" <chrisant@Exchange.MICROSOFT.com>
Windows uses the ANSI character set.  DOS programs (and almost all file
editors in existence, even ones for Windows) use the ASCII character
set.  what's happening for you is that you copy some ANSI text to the
clipboard, then paste it into an ASCII application.
to answer your 3 questions:
- no conversion is happening, it's what i explained above.
- no.
- no.  however, you can set your DOS box font to a truetype font and you
might be able to get ANSI characters, but then TSE will look weird.
the best solution might be to write a macro that DOES do a conversion
when pasting.  many characters it would be possible to convert; however,
some ANSI characters don't exist in ASCII, and vice versa.  it would be
possible to write a macro that pasted from the windows clipboard and
additionally converted from ANSI to ASCII.
e.g.,
proc ANSIPaste()
	integer n = Set(UnMarkAfterPaste, FALSE)
	// paste it
	PasteFromWinClip()
	// convert from ANSI to ASCII
	// ... you must fill this in, i don't have time ...
	// ... here's an example, though:
	lReplace(Chr(241), Chr(164), "gln")  // convert n~
	lReplace(Chr(209), Chr(165), "gln")  // convert N~
	// now handle the UnMarkAfterPaste setting
	Set(UnMarkAfterPaste, n)
	if n
		UnMarkBlock()
	endif
end
you can use Character Map (charmap.exe) and TSE's ASCII chart to figure
out the rest of them.
//chris
system: You are George De Bruin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: Syntax highlighting for 2.6".

They wrote:
> I think I didn't use it because It highlighted what I took to be the same
> features of different languages in different colours which I found
> misleading

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assistant: From: George De Bruin <george.de.bruin@semware.com>
On tsepro@semware.com, Geoff Davies[SMTP:geoffdavies@trump.net.au] wrote:
totally
Thanks for the feedback, Geoff.  We didn't put together the old syntax
highlighting pacakage, it was done by one of our users.  As we are working
on the new syntax highlighting, I am sure we'll try to come up with a
scheme that makes it easier to be more consistent.
--
                           George J. De Bruin
                       SemWare Technical Support
system: You are Otavio Exel, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: accented characters".

They wrote:
>
> to answer your 3 questions:
> - no conversion is happening, it's what i explained above.

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assistant: From: oexel@economatica.com.br (Otavio Exel)
Chris Antos (Exchange) wrote:
no, there IS some conversion beeing made! if I cut a N-tilde (#209 in
WinANSI) from NOTEPAD and paste it into TSE I end up with a N-tilde
(#165 in cp_437); you see that the conversion is clever enough to change
the code (from #209 to #165) preserving the "look" of the character: an
N with a tilde on top of it;
I don't mind if things look weird in TSE as long as can be sure it is
safe to cut/paste text to/from TSE;
[]s,
Otavio Exel /<\oo/>\
oexel@economatica.com.br
system: You are Eric Stork, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "re: Key binding reporting".

They wrote:
>
>Well, I do have two macros which do just that.. .....
>
>If there's any kind of general interest in my macros, I would be willing
>to upload them and even write a short documentation.
>

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assistant: From: Eric Stork <estork@erols.com>
At 11:57 AM 4/18/97 -0400, you wrote:
Dieter:
I'm VERY VERY interested in your macro.  If there's not enough demand for
you to upload it, perhaps you could share a copy by e-mail.  If you're
writing documentation, I can wait for that ....
Thanks,
Eric.
system: You are "Chris Antos (Exchange)", a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: accented characters".

They wrote:
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From:	oexel@economatica.com.br [SMTP:oexel@economatica.com.br]
> | Sent:	Friday, April 18, 1997 10:25 AM
> | To:	Chris Antos (Exchange)
> | Cc:	'tsepro@semware.com'
> | Subject:	Re: accented characters
> |
> | Chris Antos (Exchange) wrote:
> | >
> | > to answer your 3 questions:
> | > - no conversion is happening, it's what i explained above.
> |
> | no, there IS some conversion beeing made! if I cut a N-tilde (#209
> in
> | WinANSI) from NOTEPAD and paste it into TSE I end up with a N-tilde
> | (#165 in cp_437); you see that the conversion is clever enough to
> change
> | the code (from #209 to #165) preserving the "look" of the character:
> an
> | N with a tilde on top of it;
> |
> | I don't mind if things look weird in TSE as long as can be sure it
> is
> | safe to cut/paste text to/from TSE;
> |
> | []s,
> |
> | Otavio Exel /<\oo/>\
> | oexel@economatica.com.br

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assistant: From: "Chris Antos (Exchange)" <chrisant@Exchange.MICROSOFT.com>
whups!  i should have kept my big mouth shut.  i'm using the US
codepage, and that's all i know about.  if other codepages do
conversions, then i'd think it's just a matter of picking the correct
codepage.  Dieter had some comments about the best way to switch your
codepage.  i think depending on how you switch the codepage, it may not
fully switch over.
//chris
system: You are George De Bruin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: Key binding reporting".

They wrote:
>    >Does anyone know of a way (it will probably have to be internal) to
>    >TSE report which keys are bound to which functions?
>
>   I>It would be very helpful to have a function that can look at some
>    >symbol table
>
> Yes, that would really be great (!!!!!!)

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assistant: From: George De Bruin <george.de.bruin@semware.com>
On Thursday, April 17, 1997 10:26 PM, HS[SMTP:101660.335@CompuServe.COM]
wrote:
have
kind of
Yeah, we agree.  We've wanted to add this for some time, but there is going
to be some interesting changes that have to happen -- like we'd need to
keep command names (right now we only have an address).
Also, this would invalidate the following key assignment types:
<Alt W>	Set(WordWrap, iif(query(WordWrap), FALSE, TRUE))
<Alt Y>	if not down() Alarm() endif
So, it's a change that we're very much in favor of (we've been thinking
about this one for several versions), but we know that there will be some
major considerations to handle with this as well.
--
                           George J. De Bruin
                       SemWare Technical Support
system: You are "Thomas Swann, Tpa Engineering, 813, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Color Syntax Highlighting feedback".

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assistant: From: "Thomas Swann, TPA Engineering, 813-532-2632"
 <THOMAS_S1@sfov1.verifone.com>
Well since we got onto the topic.  Im going to throw my 2 cents in.
The *only* thing I liked about the macro implementaion (other than the
fact that it existed) was that you could configure what "items" where
considered to be in a particular color group.  For instance, I had mine
configured to highlight operating system library calls (I do a lot of
embedded stuff) from standard C calls.  So although at this point Id take
almost any form of highlighting, it would be nice at least to have the
option of configuring the behavior like the cold colors macro did.
My two cents (or no sense ...depending on how you look at it),
Thomas Swann (thomas_s1@verifone.com)
system: You are Dieter Koessl, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

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assistant: From: Dieter Koessl <DieterKoessl@compuserve.com>
Hi,
Due to popular demand I have uploaded my key assignment macros to
SemWare's FTP site.
BTW, the macros which Peter posted to this mailing list are older
versions of the macros, I have uploaded. Oh my, I can't even recall when
and how and where I posted them.
Dieter
system: You are Alvaro Sancho, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: Something dumb?".

They wrote:
>      I can not get the following to compile.  I get the error message:
>      "Error executing q &fm& -ecompress -equit" and I haven't the foggiest
>      idea what it means.  Is there a list of error messages with
>      explanations somewhere.  (Using newly installed ver 2.50d)

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assistant: From: Alvaro Sancho <asancho@ctv.es>
Phlete_Teachout@esd.tracor.com wrote:
Most probably, your source macro file has a ".txt" extension, so when
you press Ctrl-F9 the editor calls the wrong compiler. To compile
correctly, your macro file has to have a ".s" extension.
                                 ________________________________
                                            Alvaro Sancho Ejarque
                                                   asancho@ctv.es
system: You are George De Bruin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: Color Syntax Highlighting feedback".

They wrote:
> The *only* thing I liked about the macro implementaion (other than the
> fact that it existed) was that you could configure what "items" where
> considered to be in a particular color group.  For instance, I had mine

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assistant: From: George De Bruin <george.de.bruin@semware.com>
On Friday, April 18, 1997 8:01 AM, Thomas Swann, TPA Engineering,
813-532-2632[SMTP:THOMAS_S1@sfov1.verifone.com] wrote:
Thanks for the feedback, Thomas.
--
                           George J. De Bruin
                       SemWare Technical Support
system: You are George De Bruin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: Something dumb?".

They wrote:
>      I can not get the following to compile.  I get the error message:
>      "Error executing q &fm& -ecompress -equit" and I haven't the
>      idea what it means.  Is there a list of error messages with
>      explanations somewhere.  (Using newly installed ver 2.50d)

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assistant: From: George De Bruin <george.de.bruin@semware.com>
On Friday, April 18, 1997 9:57 AM, Phlete_Teachout@esd.tracor.com wrote:
foggiest
Hi Phlete,
Someone else suggested this, and it does sound correct to me: the extension
on your file name is not .S, but rather .TXT or something similar.  If you
change the extension to a .S, then it should compile correctly.
--
                           George J. De Bruin
                       SemWare Technical Support
system: You are Otavio Exel, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: accented characters".

They wrote:
> Well, it seems that Chris has overlooked a detail.
> But let's start at the beginning.
> *cut*
> hope this helps

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assistant: From: oexel@economatica.com.br (Otavio Exel)
hi Dieter,
it did help! you organized thing I knew "in a certain way" (whatever it
means) in a most understandable way; thanks!
now, I guess I'm not the only one using a CONSOLE app (TSE) to write GUI
apps that need accented characters, am I? so, how does everybody else
manage this? write the code in TSE and then use NOTEPAD to do the
accenting? that's what I've been doing and I hate it!
boy, it would be great to have a KEYB.COM and a EGA.CPI with support for
cp_WinAnsi!
thanks!
--
Otavio Exel /<\oo/>\
oexel@economatica.com.br
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assistant: From: HS <101660.335@CompuServe.COM>
Hi Dieter,
I could not find your macros on ftp.semware.com. How did you name the file?
TIA
Hanspeter Schaffner
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user: You are replying to All about "TSE via telnet to NT.".

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assistant: e8e00001
From: Scott Crittenden <scott@intercomm.com>
Greetings!
I do a lot of web design and use a Mac for all of my graphic work.  I
currently telnet into a UNIX machine to do the HTML.  We're switching
over to an NT-based web server and I'd like to use my copy of TSE on
the NT machine from my Mac.
I found a number telnet clients for NT workstation.  None of them work
very well with TSE, however.
Anyone know how to accomplish this?
______________________________________________________________________________
Scott Crittenden                   scott@intercomm.com, root@intercomm.com,
InterComm Internet Services        Voice:  702.353.2600
System Administrator               Fax:    702.356.0503
system: You are Dieter Koessl, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "re: accented characters".

They wrote:
> now, I guess I'm not the only one using a CONSOLE app (TSE) to write GUI
> apps that need accented characters, am I? so, how does everybody else
> manage this? write the code in TSE and then use NOTEPAD to do the
> accenting? that's what I've been doing and I hate it!

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assistant: From: Dieter Koessl <DieterKoessl@CompuServe.COM>
Otavio,
Two comments.
(i) Don't hard code strings at all. Use string resources. Now, you can
either use notepad to code the string resource or you can use a visual
GUI tool to put together the string resource. (Most probably you use
such a tool anyway to code all the other resources.) String resources
are "one liners" in most any case, thus the most primitive editor to
write them will do.
(ii) Search for a tool which allows you to transform OEM text to ANSI
text and vice versa. Borland C++ includes one. If you can't find one, I
have a self penned utility done in Delphi 2, which I'm willing to share.
No documentation though, but it's easy to understand and use.
Dieter
system: You are Skip Gore, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

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assistant: From: Skip Gore <sg@peganet.com>
Hi Gang,
A couple of days ago there was talk about not being able to remember
which keys were assigned to what.  A couple of macros were displayed and
I'm just wondering why they were written in such a complicated manner.
I put this one together just to see if I could:
snip===============================================================snip
 proc Main()
string word[50] = ""
EditFile("c:\tse\ui\tse.ui -n1604")
Ask("Find what", word)
Find(word, "iv")
end
snip===============================================================snip