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Re: DOS commands



At 15:57 Uhr -0500 18.01.2002, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:

>	The editors of PC World have apparently never heard of XyWrite.
>Here is the e-mail I'm sending them about an egregious misstatement (and
>some other matters) in their February issue:
><February, p. 96) that before Word 2002 "Word processing software has
>never before been able to select multiple, noncontiguous blocks of text
>to copy and paste into documents." Ever since 1993 at least, XyWrite 4
>has had the ability to append defined text to what was already in the
>clipboard, thus enabling one to collect any number of items and paste

I didn´t know that. Can somebody remind me of the command?

As for the PC world editors, I take it they have never heard of the Mac
program "Nisus" either, which has had non-contiguous selection for years.
They should restrict their statement to "Never before has *Windows*
software..."



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