Re: Dosemu, Linux, XyWrite

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

bob zimmerman wrote:


>I don't think there's any
clipboard way to insert text into XyWrite [in Linux], but I've

>played with a workaround for doing so, though I haven't tried to
insert more

>than plaintext into a file.


An excellent workaround, Paul. It's so obvious I completely missed it.
What Linux program do you paste text into and save clip.txt
with?


By default, gedit (in Ubuntu) opens clip.txt.  I just click on the
link on my desktop and go; Ubuntu chooses the application. In Kubuntu,
Freespire, Suse, and other KDE desktop distributions, you'd use kwrite or
kate, but in Ubuntu and these others there's no reason why you couldn't
use OpenOffice or something else. But I work with text-only files
(diacrits being encoded by SGML entities), so all I have need to insert
is text, and I don't need 100 buttons cluttering up what's essentially a
waystation. So I use gedit.


I work in Xy4, but don't use it for all my writing needs; until very
recently I could not print from DOS, NET USE being useless (& it
still is, for unknown reasons) in my case. And I'm just playing, more or
less, in Ubuntu right now, because most Xy things are easier at the
moment in WinXP with Tamedos, and my earlier experiences with DosBox and
dosemu were unsatisfying or worse. So I'm hardly expert here.


pl



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