RE: Clipboard and XyDos (was xy windows)

["Daskin, Alan" Alan.Daskin@xxxxxxxx]

One minor addendum: Since most of us presumably prefer the keyboard to the
mouse, it's worth noting that all of this can be done with the keyboard.
Specifically,

1.	Instead of clicking on the MSDOS icon in the UL corner of the DOS
box, use ALT-spacebar.
2.	Then type "E" followed by "K" (the underlined letters in the
dropdown menus instead of clicking on "Edit" and "Mark."
3.	To select text with the keyboard, first use the cursor keys to move
to the beginning of the desired block. Then use SHIFT+cursor keys (typically
the "right" and "down" cursor keys) to complete selection of the block.

Jeff Daskin

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Olson, Timothy [SMTP:timothy_olson@xxxxxxxx]
	Sent:	Thursday, December 10, 1998 9:53 AM
	To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
	Subject:	Re: Clipboard and XyDos (was xy windows)

	>You can't use XYDOS to copy to or from Windows programs.

	Actually, you *can* use the Windows clipboard--with limited
results--with
	XYDOS if you have Xy in a DOS window (not full screen). I've long
done
	this with Xy3 in both Win3.1 and Win95; and I just tested it with
Xy4 in
	Win95 and it behaves the same.

	By "limited results" I mean that you only paste text, no formatting.
And
	if you select text FROM Xy to paste, you're actually selecting a
	rectangle of text (much like Xy's column define); so when you paste
it
	somewhere else there are "artificial" line breaks. But it works!

	I don't know if this is unique to my machine or not, but here's how
to do
	it:
	1. Put Xy in a DOS box (hit Alt+Enter to toggle from fullscreen
mode)
	2. Click the icon in the UL corner of the DOS box, then click Edit.
	3a. To select text to be clipped, click Mark
		Then, using the mouse, clig/drag a rectangle around the text
you want to
	select
		To copy the text to the Windows clipboard, click the icon,
Edit, Copy
	(or just hit Enter, as it says)
	3b. To paste, click, uh... Paste.

	Of course, one could always define the text in Xy, use SAD to create
a
	new file, then call up the file in, say, Notepad--a Windoze
program--and
	paste it from there. Assuming your defined block is straight text,
with
	no embedded codes, this works flawlessly. The same goes for pasting
in
	the other direction. Since Notepad works with .TXT files, it's a
nice
	intermediary.

	Timothy Olson
	Editorial/Technical Assistant
	Tyndale House Publishers
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