Re: Xydos to email

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Judith Davidsen wrote:

> Is there any quick way to copy *selected* text from a
> Xy4.018dos file either directly into a Netscape 4.7 email OR
> as an attachment?
>
> The techniques I know involve opening a separate file for
> the selected text before copying to email, and I'd like to
> avoid that if possible.
>
> thanks for any ideas.
>

Judith,

There are a few things you can do here. In theory, if you open XyDos in
a window rather than in full screen, you can definie something and then
use "mark" to copy it to the clipboard. Harry Binswanger knows how to do
this and hopefully he will be more specific. He has explained this
before.

But: there are easier ways. Assuming you haven't put any MDIT's, etc. in
the file you are intending to e-mail, if you attach it to the e-mail the
changes are excellent your recipient will be able to read the file
without even having to click on an "attachment" box--i.e., the file will
be plain text and will appear in the body of the e-mail itself.

And, finally, again, if there are no formatting codes in the Xyfile,
simply save your file, say, as Judith.txt. Then you can open it in
Windows with Word or one of the "pads," where you will have before you
all the functions that Windows giveth.

Good luck!

WARNING: The above comments are from a user of Netscape 4.7 as browser
and for e-mail. with e-mail defaults set to HTML off. Your experiences
may vary.



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