Solved, creating macros using screen

Some may recall my previous trys, and failures, to create macros using screen commands.

I was using exec tied to a bindkey in screenrc to run a shell script which contained a series of the stuff commmands to send instructions to
the current application.

It didn't work.  By experiment I found that switching to another window and doing the shell script at the cli worked.

So I used bindkey with a select # command to go to that window; followed by exec to run the shell command; the last command in the shell
script was a select to return me to the application window.  Joy, it works seamlessly as desired.

Useing this approach any number of screen based macros can be developed.
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Thanks to all who offered advice.


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