From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Victor Warner Subject: Re: Copy / Paste to / from Dosemu Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:38:13 +0000 Message-ID: <47ECE6B5.7020600@woroner.com> References: <47EC1BD3.1060906@woroner.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Victor Warner wrote: > >> 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. >> > > 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFH7HE6lNlJzOkJmTcRAimlAJ0bQ4q8Bpqi4Xo2mZW/J1RJp+UsPgCfRRTp > 3H1PkdUekLLgF1V7tIK5xAU= > =PWsB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >