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    26-Jun-88 02:13:37
Fm: Charlie Heath 74216,2117
To: Bob Rakosky 75156,336

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Hmm … interesting idea. I guess I could add something like the auto-timeout callout, though I wonder if the response-time for an AREX macro will feel fast enough to keep up with speedy typists on a per-character basis. This sounds like ideally there would be a library-type callout with each character, and if it is a formatting character you could do whatever you want with it, or for 'normal' stuff you'd just pass it through. But that wouldn't be practical unless you're a pretty seasoned developer type. I'll see what happens when calling a REXX macro with each character; probably the callout would be before inserting the char, and you would set a return code to NULL to just pass the char through, or 1 if you've eaten the char, or something like that. Thanks- …cheath