Sean,

The lack of macros. I have a specific use for them and nano doesn't have SD>that capability. I post a lot in the COOKING echo and I post a lot of SD>recipes. Since I use Meal-Master, a DOS-based recipe manager, I have the SD>macros programmed to put MM's exported recipe text file through dos2unix, SD>then read the recipe into the message, and finally add my signature to the SD>message. It's easier for me to just use the macros to do all of that.

Speaking of macros, a former local area Sysop and former ham radio
operator, had set up a long password with high ascii characters with
regular numbers and letters. The thing was, if he didn't have it as a
macro, he'd never remember it.

Before Janice and I got engaged and married, I had come to visit her
at her apartment (where I eventually moved to until a year before my
Mom's death last August), and I went to logon to the BBS...which was
still at what was my parents place (it's mine now). Anyway, I was so
used to logging on with a macro, that when I connected, the software I
was using entered the user ID and password in one whack.

Well, I got to the logon prompt, hit the macro, and nothing happened.
Then, it hit me.

"You're not at the host console. You don't know your own password. You
can't logon to your own BBS"!! :P

Salted crow, and humble pie, anyone?? <G>

Daryl


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Daryl Stout wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Well, I got to the logon prompt, hit the macro, and nothing happened. Then, it hit me.

"You're not at the host console. You don't know your own password.
You can't logon to your own BBS"!! :P

LOL - that's like modern browsers remembering passwords. That's fine
and dandy til you're not using your own machine. :-) That's why I
still KNOW my passwords. ;-)




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Jimmy Anderson wrote to Daryl Stout <=-

LOL - that's like modern browsers remembering passwords. That's fine
and dandy til you're not using your own machine. :-) That's why I
still KNOW my passwords. ;-)

I still know my important passwords without issue because I make them
memorable only to me. Even with health and memory issues, some things are still quite clear to me.

Later,
Sean

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Hi, Jimmy...long time, no type.

Well, I got to the logon prompt, hit the macro, and nothing happened. Then, it hit me.

"You're not at the host console. You don't know your own password. You can't logon to your own BBS"!! :P

LOL - that's like modern browsers remembering passwords. That's fine
and dandy til you're not using your own machine. :-) That's why I
still KNOW my passwords. ;-)

I use the Dashlane Password Manager now...too bad I can't also add
high ascii characters to them.

If I don't have a bad night, I'm going to try to go to the Hoxie
Hamfest in the morning (Feb. 15). I hope to do the Russellville Hamfest
in March, but I'm torn between the Fort Smith Hamfest and the Arkansas
Railroad Museum Show And Sale, which are always on the first Saturday in
April.

I'm taking 2 Amtrak train trips to Louisiana hamfests this year. The
first one is a circuitous route to the Slidell Hamfest in late July, and
the second one is a quickie train/bus trip to the Shreveport Hamfest in
early August.

Daryl, WX4QZ


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Sean,

I still know my important passwords without issue because I make them SD>memorable only to me. Even with health and memory issues, some things are SD>still quite clear to me.

Some days, I feel like the cartoon, where the naked old man is on the
park bench, talking to a younger gentleman...noting something about forgetfulness and old age. <G>

Daryl


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