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Re: clipboard

Leslie speaks the truth. TTG confessed to me several years ago XyWin's
limited ability to paste to the clipboard. My experience is that 800 words
or so is the upper limit. Aggravating.

--Jack Shafer


----- Original Message -----
From: Leslie Bialler 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: clipboard


> Emery Snyder wrote:
> >
> > I'm using XyWin 4.12 on Win95. I switched to XyWin for easy in
cut&pasting,
> > but I notice that I can't paste very much text from Xy to another app
using
> > the clipboard. The limitation doesn't *seem* to be in the clipboard
itself,
> > since I can paste longer things from (for example) editpad (a bigger
notepad).
> >
> > Does anybody know what the problem is here?
>
> You are correct. The limitation has nothing to do with the clipboard
> itself. The limit is on the XyWin side. I seem to recall there was some
> discussion of this a while back. Perhaps the List's Wise Persons have
> prevailed over the limitation. If so, no doubt they will be more than
> happy to guide you.
>
>
>
> --
> Leslie Bialler
> Columbia University Press
> lb136@xxxxxxxx
> > http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup