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system: You are Ross_Boyd@Tnt.Com.Au, 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: Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au
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Hi guys,
Many thanks to both Sammy and Chris Anton for the help with setting the
Volume label.
The dll call will do nicely.
The File Manager macro I'm writing is an almost _exact_ replica of
Xtgold 3.0 for DOS.
Put it this way, you can't tell the difference, except TseGold (as I
call it) will handle LFN's and doesn't run out of memory with big hard
drives. I haven't bothered with mouse support - I never used it in
Xtgold anyway.
Because it so closely emulates XTGOLD I think I'd be risking breach of
copyright if I uploaded it.
Mind you, TSE comes with UI emulations of WordPerfect and Brief so
maybe it would be OK.
Also, its by no means complete, the interface is finished but the
functionality still needs filling in.
You know, I've only recently converted from TSE 2.5 to 2.8.  I think it
was the Syntax Highlighting and the LFN support that finally won me
over. Good job guys.
By the way, is there an updated TSE Help file?  I'm using quite a few
undocumented functions these days.
eg. GetVolumeInfo(), the INI interface functions etc.
I know Chris Anton put together an excellent Help system macro that
expanded on these - but its still not complete.
Anyway, thanks again for your help,
Ross
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system: You are "Bill Stewart", 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 "CUAWS v4.2a".

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assistant: From: "Bill Stewart" <bstewart@iname.com>
Version 4.2a of my WordStar-compatible user-interface is now
released. It can be downloaded from my web site at:
http://www.integrityonline1.com/bstewart/
system: You are Ross_Boyd@Tnt.Com.Au, 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: Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au
Hi all,
Is there any reason for filenames to be case-sensitive in the poup file
picklist?
I ask this question because I am trying to avoid a situation where the
history list contains duplicate filenames ie. one is mixed-case and the
other is upper-case say.
It annoys me to have duplicates in the filename history lists and I
want to somehow stop this from happening.
Here is the scenario:
1) I select Edit File
2) I type in "C:\" and then hit <Tab>
3) TSE displays a PickFile list.
4) I select AUTOEXEC.BAT (say)
5) If I look at my EditFile history it will now contain C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
(It may also be contain a "c:\autoexec.bat")
I want to somehow Lower() the returned filename at step 4 above which
would avoid the duplicate.
Anyone got any ideas?
Just as a by-line, I have already forced all file history lists to
store the entire path of the edited file so that it matters not which
directory I am in when I select the file again from the history list.
Semware please note:     This would be an excellent builtin
configuration feature for TSE.
Regards,
Ross
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system: You are "Y.T.Lim", 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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They wrote:
>Because it so closely emulates XTGOLD I think I'd be risking breach of
>copyright if I uploaded it.
>Mind you, TSE comes with UI emulations of WordPerfect and Brief so
>maybe it would be OK.

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assistant: From: "Y.T.Lim" <ytlim@dingley.net>
I don't think there is going to be any problem with it. There are at least
half a dozen of XTree clones (freeware & shareware) out there! There
are also quite a few NC (Norton Commander) clones. Symantec doesn't
seem to care too much about them. Back in the Dos days, someone once
said, NC is for programmers and Xtree is for the rest. That showed how
popular were the two file managers.
Talking about Xtree/XTgold and NC, I wonder how most TSE users
start up TSE. For me, I set TSE as an icon on WCMD (Windows
Commander, an NC clone). From the WCMD panel, I can use quick
search to find a file quickly and then click on the TSE icon. The file
is loaded into TSE directly irrespective of its extension - no mucking
around with the file association or "send to". With such a file manager,
there is no need to have an inbuilt TSE file manager.
/Y.T.
system: You are "Sammy Mitchell", 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 "text to HTML macros".

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assistant: From: "Sammy Mitchell" <sammy.mitchell@semware.com>
A user has asked us for any macros we have developed for converting text
files to HTML.
Has anyone out there developed anything along these lines that they wouldn't
mind sharing?
Thanks in advance for any submissions.
Sammy Mitchell, SemWare Corp.
system: You are "Jose Adriano Baltieri", 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 "UNDO MACRO".

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assistant: From: "JOSE ADRIANO BALTIERI" <JABALTIE@iep-cen.unimep.br>
         I know this has been asked several times before but, I hope this may
be the last one :
         Is there a functional UNDO macro for TSE version 2.5 ?
         I've got one from FTP site made by Mr. James Coffer. It works fine
but unfortunatelly brings together several other undesirable key mappings,
and it seems to me very difficult to take all them out. I just need a simple
and functional UNDO macro.
system: You are "Lang, David", 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 "SQR macros, Syntax Highlighting".

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assistant: db1e0001
From: "Lang, David" <DLang@norrell.com>
All,
Are any macros, etc... available related to SQR (Sqribe Software)?  I
would be especially interested in Syntax highlighting.
Thanks!
David R. Lang
Norrell Corp
404/240-3659
David R. Lang
x3659
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.

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assistant: From: "Chris Antos (Exchange)" <chrisant@Exchange.MICROSOFT.com>
sounds like you're talking about the history lists.  by default, they
just take verbatim what you type.
you mentioned you've already modified it so the history lists always
store full pathnames.  if you want them to always use lower case, why
not add that modification to the one you already made?
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.

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assistant: From: "Chris Antos (Exchange)" <chrisant@Exchange.MICROSOFT.com>
no.
the next version of TSE has it built in, but the version is still in
development.
system: You are Ross_Boyd@Tnt.Com.Au, 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: XTGOLD/NC".

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assistant: From: Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au
Hi Y.T.,
Thanks for your feedback.
Yeah, I think you're right. The Xtgold people probably aren't going to
be worried about a little TSE macro. Bottom line is its not exactly
going to eat into their sales.
Back in the 'good old DOS days' I used to use XTGOLD and Qedit
exclusively. It was like a marriage made in heaven. Now I just use TSE
with its Restore State capability so I can get through the
edit/compile/link cycle pretty quickly.
I haven't used WCMD but it sounds like you use it the same as I did XTG
and Qedit above.
Mainly my reasons for writing the XTGOLD macro are  a) the humour of
it.    b)  I don't like/use TSE's File Manager    c)  Win95 Explorer
lacks functionality/control. d) I want a powerful portable File Manager
 when I visit customer sites.
I guess, in the end, what you use boils down to what you're doing, what
you're used to, and what tickles your fancy.  Maybe not in that order :-)
Regards,
Ross
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assistant: From: Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au
Hi Chris,
Sorry, I didn't make that very clear.
I was talking about the history lists - specifically those that store
filenames.
Yes I already do lower-case the filenames and expand their path before
they get saved to history.
The point is, that with TSE 2.8, when you use <Tab> to bring up a
PickFile() dialog and select a file it doesn't seem to allow me to
Lower()/expand the filename.
See the 'scenario' below.
So, I was kinda hoping that someone might know a workaround for this.
Just as I think of it, maybe I can Hook into the _PICKFILE_STARTUP_
event and lower-case the filenames in the Pick Buffer.
I'll give that a try.
You know, sometimes just verbalising a problem can lead to an answer.
Funny that.
Thanks for your feedback.
Kind Regards,
Ross :-)
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assistant: From: "Chris Antos (Exchange)" <chrisant@Exchange.MICROSOFT.com>
if you hook _PROMPT_CLEANUP_, you can do it there.
inside of a hook proc for _PROMPT_CLEANUP_, the current buffer is the
prompt itself, and the current line is the contents of the prompt.  (be
careful not to touch anything but the current line!!).  you can replace
the contents of the current line with something else, and that will be
returned as the result from the prompt.  so you could do your
lowercasing there.  you may want some extra logic to control when to do
the lowercasing, though -- might not want all prompts to always return
lowercase text.  (for instance, maybe use GetStrXY to get the first few
characters of the prompt message [File(s) to edit:] and only do the
lowercasing if the first n characters match "File(s)" or "File" or
something).
hope this helps.
system: You are Ross_Boyd@Tnt.Com.Au, 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: Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au
Hi again,
I tried your suggestion and whattayaknow!
And out of appreciation  I have included an undocumented feature I
discovered a while back.
To determine what prompt you are in, you simply query(CurrHistoryList).
This works for user-defined history lists also.
See snippet below:
===============================
proc OnPickFileCleanUp()
    // Test that this is a filename history list.
    if Query(CurrHistoryList) in _EDIT_HISTORY_,_NEWNAME_HISTORY_
                ,_EXECMACRO_HISTORY_,_LOADMACRO_HISTORY_
       // Lower-case the returned value from PickFile()
       //  to avoid duplicates in the history list
        PushBlock()
        MarkLine()
        Lower()
        PopBlock()
    endif
end
===============================
Thanks for your help Chris,
Ross
system: You are Ross_Boyd@Tnt.Com.Au, 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: Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au
Hi Chris,
I looked at that. Its not a bad idea and probably the simplest
solution. But since I was also expanding the pathnames I wanted to
continue in the same vain. Anyway, it works now thanks to chrisant. See
previous post.
I appreciate your suggestion!
Regards,
Ross   (needs all the help he can get...)
system: You are Ross_Boyd@Tnt.Com.Au, 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: Lower-case filenames".

They wrote:
>Hi again,
>And out of appreciation  I have included an undocumented feature I
>discovered a while back.
>To determine what prompt you are in, you simply query(CurrHistoryList).
>This works for user-defined history lists also.

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assistant: From: Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au
Hi again,
Whoops! That undocumented feature is no longer undocumented. My apologies.
When I started using it CurrHistoryList wasn't mentioned in the Help files.
"Sorry 'bout that chief."
Ross
system: You are Ross_Boyd@Tnt.Com.Au, 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: XTGOLD/NC".

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assistant: From: Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au
Hi,
Absolutely! I like 4dos a lot. It makes a mockery of command.com.
Regarding posting the finished product, well I guess its a case of
'publish and be damned'.
Don't hold your breath, though... It won't happen overnight - but it
will happen.
Thanks for the encouragement.
Ross
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user: You are replying to All about "Porting TSE to Windows CE".

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assistant: From: Chris Shuffett <CSHUFFET@providence-hospital.org>
Hi,
Anybody else interested  in seeing TSE running on Windows CE?  I just
received an HPC for x-mas and found it to be a great tool.   Someone is
already working on creating an MS-DOS emulator that will probably
support TSE 2.5 but I was hoping that someone at Semware's HQ might
be looking at porting the latest and greatest version of TSE into this new
environment.  It would be great if I could use SAL to access all the new
DLLs being written.
Chris Shuffett
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assistant: From: Chris Shuffett <CSHUFFET@providence-hospital.org>
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The product mentioned indirectly is called XT-CE by Pyram-ID Software.
Check them out at URL http://www.pyram-id.demon.co.uk/
Unfortunately, they don't mention anything about pricing.
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Can you be more specific about "Someone is already working on
creating an MS-DOS emulator".  I too have desired the ability
to run TSE (any release) in the WINDOWS CE environment, but
have not seen or heard of (before your post) any hope for that.
In fact I refuse to buy a WINDOWS CE based machine until I know
that I could run TSE on it.
system: You are "Randie Peterson", 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 "Receipt of 1/5/98 5:01 PM message".

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assistant: From: "Randie Peterson"<randie.peterson@Tallysys.COM>
Re:SQR macros, Syntax Highlighting
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.

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assistant: From: "Chris Antos (Exchange)" <chrisant@Exchange.MICROSOFT.com>
that would have to come after the GUI version is released.  CE
definitely does not support console mode (which is as it should be).
running TSE on a CE machine seems more novel than useful.  TSE-Jr might
make sense on CE though.  and TSE-Jr will almost certainly run under the
CE DOS emulator.  i could see TSE-Pro being VERY useful on a laptop, but
kind of overkill and mismatched on a CE handheld.
system: You are Kyle Watkins, 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 "Novell netware 4.x".

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assistant: From: Kyle Watkins <kyle.watkins@semware.com>
We are looking for individuals who have the following,
and will be willing to run some tests for us:
TSE Pro/32 v2.8 running under Windows 95 with access to
a Netware 4.x server (with long filename support enabled
on the server).
Please send response to tech.support@semware.com
Thanks!
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 Your       SQR macros, Syntax Highlighting
 document:
 was        Stephane Gibier/Noisy/CGI
 received
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 at:        09:17:52 Today
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user: You are replying to All about "Re: Porting TSE to Windows CE -Reply".

They wrote:
(>100meg).  We will probably see HPCs sporting small high capacity

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assistant: From: Chris Shuffett <CSHUFFET@providence-hospital.org>
I disagree.
I think that TSE professional would be more viable than TSE jr.  While TSE
is a fine editor I doubt that many would put it to enough use to justify the
cost.  On the other hand, making SAL available would be justifiable
because today there is a scarcity of good inexpensive programming
options for writing those little macros that assist us in our day to day
processing choirs.  In my search I've found Pocket Lisp and Basice for
developing directly on the HPC, neither of which can be considered
professional developer packages.  For remote development there is the
GNU professional C++ toolkit and the Windows CE SDKs for VB 5, VC++
5, and Java all of which are way past overkill for what I want to do.
The MS-DOS option is only a stop gap measure to fill the current
software void.  If TSE is to compete in tomorrow's world there needs to
be a real port of the software.  If you are arguing that HPCs are too small
to be useful then I would retort that they are rapidly bulking up.  This year
the manufacturers will begin offering color and more and more ram
optical or magnetic devices in the near future.  Case in point, consider
the Toshiba Libretto 50CT which runs Windows 95 in color!
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assistant: From: Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au
Hi all,
Maybe someone is interested in this.
Last night I was experimenting with a function to return a list of
valid drives and came across this little gem.
There is a function GetNextConnection() which will give you a list of
valid drives like this:
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user: You are replying to All about "GUI version of TSE?".

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From: BaDge <baj7d@avery.med.virginia.edu>
I thought I glimpsed a comment about a GUI version and wondered if this is
true.
Hopefully it will be tight code, no .dlls, etc.
regards,
_____
BaDge
<baj7d@virginia.edu>
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assistant: From: "JOSE ADRIANO BALTIERI" <JABALTIE@iep-cen.unimep.br>
         Since I met it, I've become an enthusiastic and fanatic user of TSE
PRO V2.5, that is, I've been an applicative user until now. However, I'd
appreciate too much learning how to program macros in SAL, so that I could be
also a programer and not only such experienced user.
         Have looked at Macro Reference Guide but I don't think this could
be a good start. I'm looking for something more "step by step" (of course not
something so basic since I know how to program in other languages, Pascal for
instance).
         Would someone suggest a didatic material to learn this SAL
programming ?
         Thanks in advance for any suggestion and sorry for my pooour
Inglishi :-(
system: You are "Sammy Mitchell", 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: GUI version of TSE?".

They wrote:
>I thought I glimpsed a comment about a GUI version and wondered if this is
>true.
>
>Hopefully it will be tight code, no .dlls, etc.

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assistant: From: "Sammy Mitchell" <sammy.mitchell@semware.com>
Hello!
Yes, we are (slowly) working on a win32 GUI version.  It is similar to
the win32 console version, except the screen display speed is somewhat
faster under Win95 (they are about the same under WinNT).
It shares much of the same code as TSE Pro 2.5, and the win32 version.
Major difference is the user interface code (of course!), since it is a GUI
app.
Sammy at SemWare
p.s. So who is BaDqe?  Who am I writing to?