I have just discovered that macroize in 6.0.1 doesn't work on my machine running OS 8.6. It is probable that it is broken in 6.0, but I never used it during the few weeks that I was using that version. I have a macro that drops any leading zeros in dates of the form mm/dd/yyyy, and drops the century in YYYY. I had just hard wired 19 into the search part, so last January, being lazy, I just did a quick and dirt fix to my conversion macros by replacing 19 with 20 in my macro, and then running both. This year, I realized I should actually write a generic version that would drop leading zeros and drop the century whether the century was 19, 20, 21 etc. So I set up the search and replace, and when I was certain it was working, macroized it. When I went to the macro file, I discovered that the special character section, you know the lozenges in the find part were replaced with 0's, 9's, and 1's in a strange font that I would guess to be about size 18 even though Nisus believed them to be any font any size.. I had selected 0 to 9, 0 or 1 times, twice followed by a / repeated, then repeated by not followed by a slash, you know to match the pattern mm/dd/yyyy. Then in the replace section, the found1 and found 2 were okay, but / was replaced with a page break lozenge. I am not sure I have explained what happened very well, but suffice to say, the macroized version of my search and replace was mangled beyond recognition and would not work. I was able to create a working macro by the old method of cut and paste, but I was very disappointed that I could no longer trust macroize to work. Has any one else had any problems with macroize? Another problem I have noticed is that since I have gotton an HP Deskjet 930C, every time I open Nisus and the deskjet is selected it tells me that there has been an error loading hp deskjet software, error -192. I am using HP's latest driver, 4.0.2 10/00. It seems that this is a bogus error message as I was able to successfully print some JPEG's to the printer from Nisus. This error message doesn't happen if another printer is selected when I open Nisus, and then select the HP after Nisus has been loaded. If anyone has any ideas as to what is going on I would appreciate it. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message... ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Logue The Grateful Union http://www.earthguild.com/ Earth Guild: Tools Materials Books mlogue@madison.main.nc.us mlogue@mac.com michaell36@aol.com ______________________________________________________________________
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