[news.newusers.questions] rn macro question

odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) (03/04/90)

I've just started to use the macro capabilities of rn and I have some
questions.  What I would like to do is have a macro that pipes the current
article through a script via the | command (e.g. "| front") and then
runs another script program via the ! command (e.g. "!front2").  Basically,
the first command does some work on the article and then the second command
acts on the results.  The reason I do it this way is because I need to get
input from both the article and the keyboard.  So, to sum it up, I am trying
to figure out how to make a macro that will do the equivalent of:

	|front
	!front2

with one keystroke.  I have tried unsuccessfully.  I am also interested in
seeing macros that people use, just to get ideas on what is possible.
So if anyone out there has any interesting macros, I'd like to see them.

Thanks,

	Jon
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