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    10-Jun-88 01:31:15
Sb: #128913-#BlitzDisk
Fm: Charlie Heath 74216,2117
To: Bob Rakosky 75156,336

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Hmm, sounds like STATUS L doesn't know about EOF. Too late for the new production run, but I'll look at it before I send out the update disks. I 'spect I never saw that because I tend to leave extra blank lines ahead of the cursor rather than entering text directly at EOF. For speed, if there is something you're doing a lot, you might consider writing a customized module in C to handle the particular set of manipulations; then use macro commands which perform larger pieces of the job, such as grabbing a whole block of text with a couple of TxEd commands, and then processing the block within your custom program, pasting the block back when you're done. If you can think of new primitives within TxEd Plus that would make it easier to create customized external programs, I'd like to hear about 'em- …cheath