Re: how to get out of input.

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From: George R. Bancks
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1993 17:25

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On Wed, 9 Jun 1993 09:30:07 -0500 Mark A. Stevens said:
In article <richgrC8C3vz.G1z@netcom.com> richgr@netcom.com (Rich Greenberg)
writes:
>Assume the following:
>  You are in INPUT mode.
>  A PF key has previously been set to: 'MACRO ABC . . . .'
>  The PF key is pressed.
>
>In the macro, how do I get out of INPUT?
>
>These don't work:     ''
>                      address XEDIT ''
>
>What I need is SOS ENTER which doesn't exist.
>
I always use the IN command instead of INPUT as follows:

from a exec:

/* */
address xedit
queue 'IN text1'
queue 'IN text2'
queue 'FILE'
'XEDIT fn ft fm';
exit;
 or from a xedit macro just:

/* */
address xedit
'IN text1'
'IN text2'
exit

Respectfully Yours,
George R. Bancks
Manager of Academic Systems  Bitnet: SPGRB@LATECH
Louisiana Tech University    Internet: spgrb@vm.cc.latech.edu

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