Re: copying & pasting between XY and MS

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 If we are speaking of a wordprocessing file, why not save your XY
 document in RTF and call up the RTF file in MSWord in Open Office?
 It could not be easier. It takes about 7 seconds, and most of that
 is time spent on locating the RTF file while in MSWord.

 If it's a matter of saving only a section of a XY document, copy
 the section, paste it into a new document, and then save as RTF; or
 alternatively, save the whole XY document as RTF and load that into
 MSWord, and then cut the unwanted sections.

 I don't see a problem here, but I may be misunderstanding the
 question.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Avrom Fischer wrote:

> Since at least three quarters of the posts are over my head, I do not

 know whether my comments add anything but here goes. I run xy4 from a
 full screen in xp pro using the icon Robert described a few years ago.
 When I want to switch between xy4 and a windows application, I save my
 document with a txt extension after stripping out the deltas. I than
 call it up in notepad and paste the retrieved document in the windows
 applicaton I want to use. When converting a document generated by
 windows application such as excell or word, I paste it into a notepad
 since it seems to strip out hard returns, store the file with a txt
 extension and than retrieve it in xy.
> I assume there is a better way of doing the conversion back and forth,

 but at least I understand what I am doing and so far it works.
> I still have working copies of word for word so if I want to preserve

 formating I use word for word for conversions both ways.
> Will any of my procedures work on a pc with windows 7.
>
> avromf@xxxxxxxxmailto:avromf@xxxxxxxx or af413@xxxxxxxxmailto:af413@xxxxxxxx
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>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Harry Binswangermailto:hb@xxxxxxxx
>  To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxywrite@xxxxxxxx
>  Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 7:33 AM
>  Subject: Re: copying & pasting between XY and MS
>
>
>  Kari,
>
>  This has to be a very awkward and unnecessary way to go. Xy works just
>  peachy under XP. The cocoon he has to break out of is the idea that
>  full-screen is better than a big window. Virtual PC is overkill.
>
>  Regards,
>  Harry
>
>
>
>  >If you are upgrading to XP, you must break out of your cocoon and find a
>  >new cozy nest for your DOS applications. VirtualPC is a good choice. This
>  >way you can run your apps under native DOS and full-screen. Copying data
>  >gets done through a shared folder as files.
>  >
>  >To install VirtualPC, go to my utilities page
>  >(http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html) and
>  >
>  >1) download MS Virtual PC 2007 (Windows Vista or Windows XP)
>  >http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx
>  >
>  >2) download my DOS Additions (http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/dosadd.zip),
>  >unzip it and open the readme file for installation instructions (DOS
>  >additions are needed to share a folder between DOS and XP)
>  >
>  >3) install DOS into the virtual machine, then the DOS additions, and
>  >applications (Xy). If you install Windows 3.11 on top of DOS, you can use
>  >networking and DOS boxes, but this is a bit more complicated, and a not
>  >needed for basic operation.
>  >
>  >One added benefit is that once you have your DOS apps in a virtual
>  >machine, you can copy the virtual machine to a newer operating system,
>  >i.e. it is totally portable.
>  >
>  >Best regards,
>  >
>  >Kari Eveli
>  >LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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>  Harry Binswanger
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