Re: copying & pasting between XY and MS

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

On 03/23/2010 03:30 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > 1) No taskbar:
> > On my ME, when I hit alt-enter, I get a small screen that reads
> > "EDITOR" at the very top, and under that, a taskbar with the edit
> > icons--"mark," "copy," "paste"--as well as "properties," "fonts," and
> > an icon to return to full screen. But when I've tested Xy (via
> > flashdrive) on an Xp (or on Vista, which is worse), there's no
> > taskbar at all. Instead, this appears at the very top:
> > E:\Xywrite\EDiTOR.EXE.
> Have you tried right-clicking (I forget whether you do this with
> cursor on title bar or in text area)?
Both of Harry suggestions will work, though if you right-click the
titlebar the menu that you get will have the "mark, etc." functions
under "Edit." Alternatively, you can access this same menu by using the
key combo alt+spacebar.

...
> But coming out of my cozy cave, I see that these new-fangled computers
> don't do floppies. And so the only way to copy/paste from Xy to email
> is to use the mark-copy-paste technique in Xy on windows.
There are, as Harry says, better (much better) ways to do this besides
using a floppy, but you still can use one if you wish. If you want to
transition to XP and preserve your past practices, you purchase a USB
floppy drive, which the computer will treat as A:, and use that. I
personally don't think this is a good idea, but....

Paul Lagasse