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In article <1993Jan28.010833.194879@zeus.calpoly.edu> hvontres@zeus.calpoly.edu (Han(d)s (Henry von Tresckow)) writes:
>
>Here is my problem: I am trying to use notepad and GeoComm as a better 
>alternative to vi. :)
>But I still haven't figured out a good way to paste things BACK to my UNIX
>account. Any suggestions? 
>
>Shagg??????

Well, I'm no Shag (then again, who is? :-) but let me see if I can
help.

I assume that what you want to do is something like this: Write a note
in Notepad, cut it to the clipboard (or do a quick copy -- see below),
activate the GeoComm window, and paste your text to a file on the Unix
box.  I've done this on a number of Unix boxes with small Notepad files
(what other kind are there? :-), and this is how I do it:

If Emacs is installed, I just start it up with the filename I want,
paste the text, and exit.  It does all the word wrap for me
automatically.

If Emacs isn't installed and I have to use vi, then I usually turn on
vi's word wrap function and cut/paste a paragraph at a time.  I've
found that word wrap slows vi down, and vi's input buffer often isn't
big enough to hold all the text that piles up as a result.  I haven't
really tried this without word wrap turned on, so I don't know how
well that would work.

If you don't care about word wrap, you can do what C programming gurus
do and use cat to enter your text :-).  To paste your text into a file
called myfile you just type

cat >myfile

 or

cat - >myfile

and then paste your text in.  This has about the same effect as typing
"copy con myfile" at the DOS prompt.  Once you're done pasting your
text you need to type Control-D (or whatever your EOF character is set
to; typing "stty" at the Unix prompt wil tell you) to close the file.
Under BSD Unix you can then reformat your text to 72 (?) columns by
piping it through fmt.  I forget what the corresponding command is
under System V or HPUX or ...

Hope this helps.

Oh, yeah.  To do a quick copy, just highlight the Notepad text you
want, click and hold the *right* mouse button, move the mouse cursor
to where you want the text to go, and release the right mouse button.
Very slick and it works from practically anywhere in GEOS.  Just
another cool thing I've learned while reading this newsgroup.

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