Re: CLIP.PGM

["Paul Breeze" paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Carl

Do you think it is possible to modify CLIP.PGM to work under XY3. I have
asked Tim but he doesn't have XY3 on his system.

Paul Breeze


----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Distefano 
To: XyWrite List 
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: CLIP.PGM


>
> Reply to note from TBaehr@xxxxxxxx Tue May 02 10:21:23 2000
>
> Tim:
>
> I now have CLIP.PGM working under NT. I needed to (1) substitute
> 8.3 directory names in the path to Wordpad (oddly, "C:\Program
> Files\Windows NT\Accessories\WORDPAD.EXE" bombs, even though that
> *is* the correct path), (2) eliminate the Start command, and (3)
> disable the line that erases the temp file (it erased so quickly
> that there was no file for Wordpad to open). Leaving the temp file
> on disk is benign because the SA/NV command always automatically
> overwrites it. With those minor adjustments, it works nicely.
>
> I was intrigued by that  in the SAve command. If text is
> DeFined, it adds an "S", to save the "selected" text. What's
> interesting is that it doesn't crash if nothing is DeFined, even
> though the logic is such that Save/Get 01 remains uninitialized if
> nothing is DeFined.  would certainly crash under those
> conditions, but  doesn't. That's a new one on me.
>
> -> The DO command has been cranky for me.
>
> I stopped using DO back in the '80s, because of the frequent "Cannot
> run command" errors. DOS /C is much better behaved.
>
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> Carl Distefano
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