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- From Herb, WB1DSW:
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- I really did it tonight. Meant to type LF (I was checking a forwarded
- message for someone) and I typed KF. You know what that does? There
- goes all your bulletins - at least the ones that have been forwarded.
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- What to do. Learn a DV macro. Many steps involved but once recorded
- the recovery process is simple and much easier than typing the E command
- a thousand times....
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- Put your ASCII file editor up in a window and get it into "insert" mode.
- Swtich to SYSOP. Now, type LK USBBS which puts out msg nos for USBBS
- in a nice fat column. Then get into Mark and mark the left column, the
- one containing msg nos. Swtich to editor and Transfer the column to
- the edit. Repeat this back and forth until you have the entire batch of
- killed msg no lined up left justified. Time to learn the DV macro.
- Swtich back to sysop. Get into Learn - select an F-key (I used F9). The
- idea is to record the keystrokes used to edit the message nos but suck
- in the actual nos from the editor. So you learn: E <switch to editor>
- <Mark> <Begin> <Right 5 times> <End> <BackSpace 5 times> <Swtich to sysop>
- <Transfer> <Enter - to spit out 5 digits> <Enter> S K <Enter 2 times>
- <Un-Learn>. If all that seems rather tedious it is except when applied
- to the sysop window you just type F9 a bunch of times. You could read
- a book or watch TV while doing this saving tens of hours and wrist tendons
- to boot. I don't believe DV will allow sophiticated recursing in it's
- macro language. However this does show the brilliance of having all
- DV aware software or at least programs that are appropriate for DV to handle.
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- 73 de Herb WB1DSW.NH.USA.NOAM (NEGate)
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