Msg: 6166 *Conference*

12-17-95 06:32:20

From: COUGAR ALLEN

To : ALL

Subj: SMART KEY PROBLEM

        SMTKEY.200 Question I'm not one to go yelling for help at  the first
difficulty, but I've tried  everything I can think of and I still  can't get
Smart Key to work.  I must be doing *something* wrong, but I can't  imagine
what.  It's hard to even tell  you what the symptoms are; it seems to  
malfunction in different ways every  time I try it, but obviously if I can't 
tell you any more than "duh, it doesn't work" you're not going to be able to  
help me....
 
I just made one last try at it before  posting this.  This time I downloaded  
it again thinking that maybe my copy  had gotten corrupted somehow.  I  
installed it in a memory bank that had  nothing else in it to make sure it  
wasn't a problem of incompatibility  with other m/l programs.  I found if I  
entered any text file other than  Macdef.do I could use a macro once --  then I
couldn't use that or any other  macro until I either left and re-
entered the file or erased what the  macro had written -- then it would work 
again.  Until then it would just chirp  at me.  It sounds like the same chirp  
that means there's no such macro.  (
I've encountered this problem before,  other times I've tried installing Smart 
Key, but not always so consistently.   Sometimes it works in some text files  
and not in others.  This time it worked in Macdef.do and not in any other text
file I created.)
 
Then I moved to another bank and tried  to copy some files from that bank to  
the one I had Smart Key installed in --
every time I tried it the computer  locked up and I had to reboot.  So I  went
back to that bank and suffered a  cold start as soon as I entered the  bank
(the files in other banks were  still there, this time).
 
When I've experimented with SmartKey in the past it was before I got extra  
memory banks, so I haven't had this  exact problem before.  I have had cold  
starts before but I don't remember what I was doing when it happened.  I've had
this problem before of only being able  to use one macro in a file until I  
leave and re-enter it or delete what  the macro wrote.
 
I've tried using the sample Macdef.do  unaltered and I still have the same  
problems.  I've also tried writing my  own Macdef.do with no m/l code in it,  
or with some m/l macros copied from the sample Macdef.do.  I've run out of  
ideas -- I hope somebody can suggest  something.
 
-Cougar Allen