Cutting and pasting to Windows clipboard from DOS

[TBaehr@xxxxxxxx]

Nathan,
>From a Win 3.x window, it's a little different. Click on the system menu (I
think some people call it the "nickel slot") at the upper left corner of the
window. The menu that pulls down, if memory serves, has an Edit item with a
cascade menu for Mark and Paste. Click on Mark and then use the mouse to
highlight the text to be copied. Same procedure for WinNT3.5x. You can copy
to and from the clipboard using these controls. For some people, the
keyboard provides easier access. Alt+spacebar pulls down the system menu;
from there, you can use the accelerator keys indicated by the underscores - E
for Edit, K for Mark. So far, I haven't figured out in any version how to
mark more than is on the screen; the text marking won't scroll. And carriage
returns are rendered in Windows apps as dark blobs; they need to be edited
out, and I haven't spent the time to figure out whether that can be
automated.

Pasting into a XyWrite window is the reverse: copy something to the Windows
clipboard from a Windows app, switch to the XyWrite window, position the
cursor at the insertion point, and press Alt+Enter, E, P to paste the copy
in. On slower machines, you can see that the paste is done
character-by-character. You may find it desirable to turn off autospell
before pasting.

Tim Baehr
tbaehr@xxxxxxxx