Re: XY4DOS in a Windows World Question

[TBaehr@xxxxxxxx]

In a message dated 2/13/2002 5:24:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, pcassidy@xxxxxxxx writes:


> is
> there any easy way to use the CNTRL-X and CNTRL-V conventions of Windows
> OSes when using XY4DOS? 


Sorta. You can have a DOS program in a window (i.e. not full screen) and click the upper left-hand area of the frame. Click Edit and then Mark. Use the mouse to highlight an area. This is not ideal; what you mark is a square area, not line-by-line. And you're limited to what's visible on-screen - no scrolling. When you have the area highlighted, press Enter. The stuff is now on the Windows Clipboard and you can do anything you want with it.

The other direction is nicer. Just highlight stuff in any Windows program, press Ctrl+X (cut) or Ctrl+C (copy) to get the stuff onto the clipboard. Then switch over to XyWrite's window, click the upper left of the Windows frame, click Edit, and click Paste. This should work with any Windows version and with any DOS program, including Xy4 or XyIII+ (or earlier). 

If I were doing this all the time, I'd write a macro to save a file or any portion to disk and use the disk file as my "clipboard." I bet someone has done this already! Carl? Annie? For III+?

Tim Baehr