Re: clipboard from Win to Xy

[Nathan Sivin nsivin@xxxxxxxx]

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,
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Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
(215) 898-7454
nsivin@xxxxxxxx