<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I'm the opinion that due to the limitations of the asterisk application (it's not an operating system, it's an application...), if it is more complex than twiddling a couple bits or diddling a built in application, you are probably better off using the operating system (and the cron function) to do. things than to try and get the somewhat simplistic scheduler and macro function to do it.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">after all, you can use the macro to call a shell script...that can also be called by a dtmf command...</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Just my $.03<br><br>--<div>Bryan</div><div>Sent from my iPhone 6S.<span style="font-size: 13pt;">..No electrons were harmed in the sending of this message.</span></div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><div><br>On Mar 25, 2016, at 13:28, <a href="mailto:mike@midnighteng.com">mike@midnighteng.com</a> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span>Not sure where you got the comma. Type error? Perhaps it works?</span><br><span>I don't use them.</span><br><span>Just a space and a # at the end.</span><br><span>You can call a new macro from some other. Not sure if there is a limit. But</span><br><span>probably "no cumulative limit".</span><br><span></span><br><span>Why not just test it by making a macro string of time announcements that is longer</span><br><span>than 32 char's to find out. Then you will know.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Most folks here having a complex need will use a script assigned to a command</span><br><span>( xxxx=cmd, /dirlocation/scriptname.sh )to do the complex functions. No limits.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Some on macro's. Works for me.</span><br><span><a href="http://themidnightengineer.com/category/ham-amateur-radio/app_rpt/macros-scheduler/">http://themidnightengineer.com/category/ham-amateur-radio/app_rpt/macros-scheduler/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>...mike/kb8jnm</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Good day! I am writing user macros on an ACID Distribution server on a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dell PC. I have some questions about Macros ...</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>1) some documentation shows "5=macro", other docs show "5=macro,1".</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Is there a difference? What would macro,2 do??</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>2) is there a limit to the number of characters in a macro? I saw in</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>one document the limit was only 32 characters. True? If not, what is</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the limit?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>3) and in case 32 characters is correct ... Can I call a macro from a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>macro without looping back to a previous macro to increase the number of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>commands? Two cases ... A->B->C or A->B->C->A. 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