Re: New VCLIP

["Carl Distefano" cld@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from "John Paines" 
(Redacted sender "vf200@xxxxxxxx" for DMARC) Sat, 11 Apr 2015
12:48:10 +0000 (UTC)

John:

> To paste the Windows clipboard into xywrite, depress windows
> key+ctrl+V. To copy text from xywrite into the clipboard, there
> are two methods:  1) hold down the windows and ctrl keys and
> use the mouse left click to highlight text (this won't work in
> full screen mode), or 2) put the line LPT4 = CLIP in the
> config.txt  file and copy any xywrite file to LPT4 from the
> command line, for example: copy test.txt LPT4 That will put the
> file into the clipboard.

Thanks for the reminder about these built-in methods. I had tried
them in the past and abandoned them for reasons I can't remember. But
I've revisited them briefly just now, and they seem to work nicely.
One big advantage of the WinKey-Ctrl-V method for pasting into Xy is
that there's an automatic code page conversion from Windows to DOS (a
feature that Robert H.'s CLIP.EXE has but that I didn't attempt to
reproduce in VCLIP).

The copy filename LPT4 method for copying to seems to work well, too,
and is easily automated in Xy4, which can overwrite files without
confirmation with the SA[D]/NV command.

In any event, I'm going to stick with these built-in methods for a
while and see how it goes.

Thanks again.

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx