r position is me lpt4 And as you've correctly noted sad lpt4 is for saving highlighted xy blocks *to* the Windows clipboard I believe Carl said as much; you may have misread his reply(?) l.com> wrote: On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 at 20:34, Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Ah how interesting. SAD has always worked for me. How would ME differ. Oh Iwant to put a small part, that's why I use SAD. Now, going the other direction, can you remember the two keyboard commands to bring text from Win to VDos for from Mac to DosBox? I have even used that in the past to get accented characters into Xy4 very quickly - - - but I completely forget the commands now. On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 at 20:19, Carl Distefano <cld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Reply to note from Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> Sun, 21 Jul 2024 19:57:30 +0100 > simple keyboard commands to paste text FROM windows into a XyWrite > file Bill, I think you're looking for "ME lpt4" and "ME clip$". You want to MErge the contents of the file at the insertion point. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx