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Re: BNS Questions

#10799
From: Ted Filteau
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 21:55
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 NF> I mark a block and use GH-Chord it says "Copied."  It goes into
 NF> the Clipboard, as far as I understand things. Then, when I try
 NF> ING-Chord it says "Paste what?"  That is not the response the

Hi Nancy,
You will probably get a ton of replies to this one, but here's mine.
The dots 346 chord has been changed to accomodate the calendar features,
(I think.)  When the bns says, "paste what", to get it to work as you
are you are used too, use the letter c for clipboard.  It does add an
extra keystroke.  In my December 1 revision of the bns 640, the delete
paragraph does not copy both "CR-LF" to the clipboard.  Deleting to mark
is a good work around.

 NF> Also, does anyone have any good and useful BNS macros that they
 NF> would recommend for use by others?  Send 'em along.  It would
 NF> be much appreciated.

I'm afraid I am not a macro king, like say Tim cumings, or others, but I
do like the overwrite macro.  This is an overwrite (o w chord) a space,
a next character, and then the calling of the same macro over again to
make a loop.  It will work until a z chord aborts it.
While on this subject, I have archived the blazie stuff from their
distribution disk, and they are available on the Vibug bbs, as
Blazmans.zip which are the manuals for various Blazie Engineering
products, and bns-misc.zip, which is various files on interfacing the
bns with other devices.  I wanted to have the files in one place,
because I have found that when they come out with a given piece of info,
if you don't have that particular device, you don't care, until you get
one.  Then you wonder where the heck that info on how to make the bns do
whatever you want it to do can be found.  <grin>

Now, that the macro.sys file can be transferred, perhaps people can
begin to share their macro files for others to try out.

Ted

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From: Ted.Filteau@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Ted Filteau)
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Subject: Re: BNS Questions
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