do them anyway -- it makes me happy..
Your happiness is paramount, of course.
Thank you for the look under the hood at CLIP--like so many immensely useful things, it's very simple once someone else has figured it all out.
Yes, I'm using 2.0.6 and I ran through your instructions nearly without a hitch.
When I did, XY4 was clinging to a previous CLIP.TXT--perhaps because I had dropped into DOS?--but once I deleted CLIP.TXT the new clipped material became CLIP.TXT.
But that has not been a problem before. The latest CTRL-C bit has always been there for the CLIPping. I reiterate that it's not that CLIP isn't working, but that it's only half working. Above th!
e first
50 words (or so) of a file, it MErges just fine. Below that, it freezes and XY has to be shut down.
"evidence that your setup is fubar."
I wouldn't say my setup is fubar, an acronym that concludes: Beyond All Repair. Perhaps you mean snafu'd? Anyway, a ZIPfile will be wending its way to you privately. And jocularity aside, I greatly appreciate the help and the fact that CLIP exists at all.
Jon Pareles