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Re: how to get out of input.

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From: Phil Munro
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1993 19:58
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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.
>--
  Someone beat me to it with the basic principle, but here is a nice
little exec to demonstrate what you want to do.  First set a pf key to
'test', then get into input mode, from which you can hit the pf key.
Using the pf key out of input mode seems to ignore the stacked blank
line and just issue the example message.
 
* file: TEST XEDIT
&STACK
&STACK MSG HIGH TIME
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  Phil Munro  fc138001@ysub.ysu.edu       Youngstown State University
  Electrical Engineering Department           Youngstown  Ohio  44555
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From: FC138001@ysub.ysu.edu (Phil Munro)
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Subject: Re: how to get out of input.
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