-=> On 08-27-04  09:58,  Jean Parrot <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Import ? <=-

 JP> Hello Dale, we were saying !

 JP> Actually, I am starting a new topic.  I would like at times,
 JP> to import some text into a reply. I have saved a few words of wisdom
 JP> in C:\BWAVE as .doc and I can see them there. If I try to Esc -> File
 -> Read, it never finds them. I went to F1 but that did not help. Can I
 JP> now ask you, as you are my  F1ý.  Thanks.


   How you import  text into a reply depends on the editor you are
   using, not on BlueWave.

   I use a program called Qedit (later versions are named TSE Jr.).  It
   has a configurable menu for importing files and/or loading files.
   Sounds like its methods are similar to the editor you are using.
   For me, ESC brings up a string of menu options across the top, with
   FILE being the one on the far left.   Selecting FILE (my Qedit has no
   mouse button input, so selecting is done with the keyboard arrows)
   results in a pull down menu.  Top item on the menu is LOAD.  A few
   items down is READ.   If I select READ, then it offers me a window
   into which I can type a file name (with the name H:\BWAVE\MSGTEMP.TXT
   filled in -- but that needs to be changed).  Backspace or whatever
   over the MSGTEMP.TXT to get the name MYFILE.DOC and then hit the
   enter key.  It should insert the file into the text of the message
   where your cursor was.

   BUT -- if that is really a DOC file, i.e. one prepared with MS Word,
   then what you get will look like garbage.  The reason is that MS Word
   and other word processing programs have all sorts of stuff they use
   for formatting, font control etc.   What you need to import is a
   straight TXT file, and you can get that by saving the DOC file from
   MS Word doing a SAVE AS.

   It is also possible to do a cut and past, even into a DOS window such
   as BWave has.   Open your DOC file in Windows.   Highlight the text
   you wish to put into your BWAVE message.  Use the Word Processor
   menus to copy that text to the keyboard (usually CTRL-C will do the
   job).  Now, click on the upper left hand corner of the Bwave window.
   On my computer, it has a C:\ in a black box.  When you hit it right,
   it causes a drop down menu to appear.  Just over half way down there
   is an item that says "edit".  Move the mouse down to it, and slide to
   the right then down to select "paste".  Click on Paste and the text
   from your clipboard will be pasted into the message.

   Save the message how ever your editor says to do it (My Qedit is F3
   key) and you are done.

   Happy editing:-}}

... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 23:21:43, 27 Aug 2004
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