from Morris, Q2 in Xy3 indicates suspend spelling correcting. In Xy4 it seems to have the additional function of executing with BX. A strange anomaly or is it a function that can be used both with the spelling command and when executing without going to the command line. Carl's U2 program Bc2BX uses ascii equivalents for the embedded functions of BX and Q2. Is Q2 the same as in XY3: 255 130 127, and what are those for BX. I am using the following programs written by Herbert Tyson in XyWrite Revealed successfully in XY4 though I have not changed the BC and XC functions. Extend.pm enables the extension or reduction of defined text by moving the cursor accordingly and pressing the assigned key. Funcc.pm permits the performance of anyone of the functions in a window opened with text. When you press the key, it asks you which two keys you wish to press. Pfunc.pm embeds a function into a program. Here again it asks you what two letters you wish to press. Very useful when writing programs. Savesess.pm saves a session even when more than one window is used. Herbert Tyson's version did not work until I added the NX function in one part of the program. It saves the session but does not close the windows. This has to be done manually, but I imagine there must simply way to do so from the array of Xy4 functions and commands that can be added to this program. Getsess.pm will restore the saved session. Tim Baer has of course, informed us that saving a session and restoring is already contained in Xy4. I am attaching all these programs so they can be used in either Xy3 or 4. As I have not investigated the entire Xywwweb.u2 file I do not know if it contain programs that can do the same as the above. I agree with Rene, Jay and company that you must do what you think works for you. For inspiration, guzzle beer, wine, brandy, vodka, gin or mugs of coffee, but I suggest that if a little is fine I am sure a lot will produce even better results. But Rene lives in the land of the Rising Sun where Zen Monasteries are plentiful, so there is an alternative for him to do Zen Meditation to exhilarate his thinking. There is an interesting Zen saying or koan, "no matter how much you polish a stone, it will not shine." Their explanation of this if a person is not ready for enlightenment, there is nothing that one can do I have not done too badly on plain water, headstands and deep breathing at a age when I am regarded as being over the hill. It is the finest way to start the day. In this period of my dotageness, I have retyped every program written by Herb Tyson and I have also written numerous programs but as I am not applying for a position, I will not give a full resume One of these programs marks every wrongly spelt word and word doubles, Thomas Hawley's program can well do with this feature as his program only compiles a file of wrongly spelt words but leaves the original file untouched. A true meaning of quackery is a person who has no personal knowledge of a subject but will venture an opinion. It is also a person who dismiss actual proof given to him that he is wrong. In short a person who does not have an inquiring mind. But when you do headstands you will be in good company. This is what Lewis Carroll wrote in Alice in Wonderland. "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head - Do you think, at your age, it is right?" "In my youth," Father William replied to his son, "I feared it might injure the brain; But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again." You can also infer from this that one who stands on his head cannot have any brains, and one should take no notice what he says or does. Therefore, ignore everything that is written in this e-mail. And this verse from Alice in Wonderland will surely put me in my place. "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," Said his father; "don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!"Attachment: GETSESS.PM
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