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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Using Macro files with Uniterm
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Date: 6 Aug 90 23:09:15 GMT
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In article <6728.26bd7731@jetson.uh.edu> rcte2p@jetson.uh.edu ( ) writes:
>I have a question regarding using Uniterm and macro set up?  First, how do you
>get uniterm to load in the macro file.  Secondly, what is the name for the auto
>load macro (uniterm.mac)?  The documentation is not clear about using the
>macro's, just on the macro commands...

I had some trouble with this stuff too, but I've gotten it figured out now.

First, you can use any name you want for the auto load macro file; you set
the name in one of the option menus and then "save setup". 
(Sorry, my ST is packed in boxes right now so I can't say exactly which menu
to look for.)

There is what I'd call a bug in the auto-dialer, (or at the very least a
misfeature!) in that it looks for macro files in the current working directory,
instead of the startup directory. Thus, if you change paths after invoking
Uniterm, your dialer macro files won't get invoked when you dial a host. I
got around this problem by setting up function keys to invoke programs. First
  %copy($C,1) to save the current path into variable 1, then set the path, then
invoke an external program, then reset $C to $1. I have one function key that
saves the path, puts up a selector for the program to invoke, then invokes
the program and restores the path.
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
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