Re: clipboard from Win to Xy

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks for the suggestion, Nathan, but it doesn't work for me.

The way my system works is I regularly overwrite a temporary file named
"c:\save.tmp". When I try to save in Windows (from Eudora in Win98, for
example), I get the "Save as" screen, and when I type "save.tmp" it asks
me, "'c:\save.tmp.txt' already exists. Do you want to replace it?" I get
that even when I click on the "save as type all files *.*" selection. The
only way I can save the file c:\save.tmp is by clicking on the existing
file c:\save.tmp and overwriting it.

At 08:32 AM 2/23/99 -0500, Nathan Sivin wrote:
>
>After giving the "save as" command, you can avoid saving as *.XY.TXT by
>putting a period after the "XY" when typing the filename. There are some
>circumstances in which this doesn't work, but it is usually reliable.
>
>No one has asked about the inverse procedure, namely getting XY files
>and clips from them into the Windows clipboard. The simplest way is to
>open the file in QuickView or QuickView Plus (the latter, the
>non-crippled utility, is well worth the price), select what you want,
>and save it directly to the clipboard with ctrl-C. Of course this does
>not preserve formatting. If that is an issue, you will definitely want
>to save from within XY in, say, RTF format, and import the file into the
>other application.
>
>Cheers,
>--
>Nathan Sivin
>History and Sociology of Science
>University of Pennsylvania
>Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
>(215) 898-7454
>nsivin@xxxxxxxx
>
>

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