how to cut and paste from dos program called 'pal-tabs' (time billing
software for attorneys) to ms word or excel?

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Request for Question Clarification by hummer-ga on 15 Dec 2004 07:12 PST

Hi st1100,

This should work but it would be best if you try it out before I post
it as an answer (click on the link for full instructions).

PCPlus:
"The method requires running the program that needs the MS-DOS
environment in a ?DOS BOX? instead of a simple DOS partition."
"If you?re used to starting the MS-DOS-dependent program from the
START/RUN dialog, it?s in a DOS BOX already..."
"When you have the display in a DOS box, you?ll see some icons at the
top of its window. The leftmost one is a drop-down list that controls
the shape, size and font of the box; you may well want to try others
for the best display. The other icons are MARK (similar to SELECT),
COPY and PASTE, then there?s a gap until you find FULL-SCREEN,
followed by three property-related icons. MARK enables you to
highlight a rectangular selection of pixels from the screen (remember
that DOS pixels tend to be very big ? one character can fit on each),
and COPY and PASTE work with the good old Windows clipboard. When
you?re finished copying what you want to the clipboard, click on
FULL-SCREEN, or alternatively, key [Alt]+[Enter] again."
"At your leisure, you can paste the MS-DOS displayed data into a word
processor, notepad or editor..."
http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tips/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=30494&subsectionid=390

Please let me know how that goes,
hummer

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Clarification of Question by st1100-ga on 15 Dec 2004 11:50 PST

yes that worked, thanx!

Hi st1100,

Thanks for the good news, I'm glad to hear it worked for you. Here it
is again to make it official...

PCPlus:
"The method requires running the program that needs the MS-DOS
environment in a ?DOS BOX? instead of a simple DOS partition."
"If you?re used to starting the MS-DOS-dependent program from the
START/RUN dialog, it?s in a DOS BOX already..."
"When you have the display in a DOS box, you?ll see some icons at the
top of its window. The leftmost one is a drop-down list that controls
the shape, size and font of the box; you may well want to try others
for the best display. The other icons are MARK (similar to SELECT),
COPY and PASTE, then there?s a gap until you find FULL-SCREEN,
followed by three property-related icons. MARK enables you to
highlight a rectangular selection of pixels from the screen (remember
that DOS pixels tend to be very big ? one character can fit on each),
and COPY and PASTE work with the good old Windows clipboard. When
you?re finished copying what you want to the clipboard, click on
FULL-SCREEN, or alternatively, key [Alt]+[Enter] again."
"At your leisure, you can paste the MS-DOS displayed data into a word
processor, notepad or editor..."
http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tips/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=30494&subsectionid=390

Addition Link:

WINDOWS 98 -Tips And Tricks:
http://computer.pcfl.net/Handouts/Tips.htm

Thanks again,
hummer

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