Re: Copy / Paste to / from Dosemu

[Victor Warner <vwarner@woroner.com>]

Ken,

Thank you for the reply. What you have written is what I believed still
to be the case.

However, I was intrigued by the following comment from Bart Oldeman
announcing 1.4.0.1:

"Improved copy and paste of text to and from DOSEMU."

But this is not explained further.

Victor Warner.

Ken Heard wrote:
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> Victor Warner wrote:
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>> I would like to know whether it is possible to copy / paste text to /
>> from dos applications running under Dosemu to / from Linux applications.
>>
>> If so, I would be grateful to know how it can be done.
>>     
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> You can't directly.  My workaround is to copy the text to a DOS text
> file, such as the WordPerfect text editor, open that file in a Linux
> text editor, such as Kedit, and then insert that file in the desired
> Linux application.
>
> As you can see the workaround is quite cumbersome.  I have many
> important texts written when I was still using WordPerfect 5.1, parts of
> which I want to incorporate in documents created in OpenOffice, which I
> now use as my primary word processor.  The workaround described is how I
> manage the transfer.
>
> Ken Heard
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