On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:35:36 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: >There is just so much wrong with several things you mentioned.
My initial reaction to Steve's post was similar to yours. Then I remembered that we were talking about a macro to make the it easier to construct the pattern bytes for ED and EDMK. These are not so terribly difficult and IMO there is little benefit to coding a macro to do it. Especially like the simplistic one that someone presented here. To use that macro, someone would have to already understand the way the pattern bytes work. For example, that the Significance Starter would be the last byte to receive the fill character if the characters up to that point are all zero. If I wanted to code an EDit instruction and didn't remember how, I'd have to look it up in the POO, and look up the documentation for the macro. Someone suggested that it should be listed in a spreadsheet. How will I find the macro to be used for EDit/EDMK patterns in a spreadsheet with 6500 macros in it? -- Tom Marchant
