Hint on backup from NB List; Save to A and C at same

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

For those of you not following the NotaBene sister list, here is
a recent hint on double saving and assigning it to a key.

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About my save procedure in NB 3.*.
As I said before, I don't know if there's an NB 4.* equivalent.

1. cd \nb
2. ca nb.kbd
3. scroll down to the Alt section of the file
4. replace Alt2 and Alt3 (=keys Alt1 and Alt2) with the following
lines:

2=bc,s,a,v,e,xc,bc,s,a,v,e, ,a,:,xc
3=bc,s,a,v,e,xc,bc,s,a,v,e, ,b,:,xc

(It helps to remember that the protocol is that all single
characters and double-character commands have to be separated by
commas - then you won't mis-type the commands.)
5. sa nb.kbd
6. load nb.kbd (or re-launch NB.)

Alec McHoul

> From "Michael O'Brien" 
> Subject Using a key to save to floppy

Yechiel Goldberg wrote:
> BTW, not that this helps the present situation, but I always save both to
> my HD and to a floppy while I'm working, the extra few seconds it takes to do
> this, as long as one is diligent about it, is some insurance against random
> acts of the Dragonfly. I think Mervyn even wrote an XPL routine, which
> automates this task, and may be available in the archives on Simtel's mirrors.

Here's a key definition that will save the current file to drive
a, and that also answers the prompt allowing an overwrite of the
file:

94=bc,s,a, ,a,:,xc,y
   [did you see the colon (:) ?

You can, of course, assign it to any key, and can delete the ",y"
at the end if you do not want it to automatically overwrite an
earlier copy of your file.

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 Michael O'Brien
Lincoln, MA
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   Note that the "double-letter" keys are not two letters but
   the visual result of a command key: bc = F5, xc = F9 etc.