DC> There may be one, though.  I know I can c/p between DOS apps with 
 DC> the SWITCHER prg I use!  I use that with MM.  It's easier than 

 CJ> One of the first TSR programs was Borland's editor, Sidekick.
 CJ> It would pop-up from DOS with a hot key combination.  You could
 CJ> import and export text with it.  However, the easiest solution is
 CJ> the ALT-ENTER that Dale suggested.

 DC> What I like about SWITCHER is that I can have multiple DOS 
 DC> apps open.  They don't run in the background, but I don't 
 DC> have to load/re-load and/or save the text to file and import.   

you don't have to do that with DOS tasks running in windows, either... i
never have and never will... and i've never relied on any other apps to
provide that functionality, either...

 DC> I've used it long before I ever ran Windows.  

times change... and with them, some procedures, too... when i ran straight
DOS, i did the textfile thingy... when i ran DESQview, i moved on to
advanced procedures that worked great... then i (somehow) got into windows
v3 and after that OS/2 and, further on, into OS/2 and win9x when it came
out... in all those environments, i've used their builtin capabilities and
not looked at, for or relied on third party programs to do what was native
in those environments...

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