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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Mark/Copy Bug
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.230708.1452@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 23:07:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.161325.15241@news.columbia.edu> <24JAN199311163397@zeus.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <24JAN199311163397@zeus.tamu.edu> lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M) writes:
- >->Try this:
- >->Open two DOS sessions - one running DOS EDIT.EXE
- >->type any text file in the other, e.g. 'type config.sys'
- >->Mark and copy some text: e.g.
- >->SET PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM
- >->Go to the other session and paste it.
- >->I am getting similar to:
- >->SE TPATH=C:\OS 2;C:\OS2\S YSTEM
- >-> ^ ^ ^
- > We reported this as a bug in the last Beta (pre-SP). Obviusly it has
- >not been fixed, as I just reproduced it in the 2.1 Beta. It did the same
- >thing in WordPerfect for DOS, so it is not QBASIC's fault.
- >HEY IBM: Listening?
-
- If you have access to CompuServe, report your bug there (GO OS2USER;
- post in message area 16). That's the "official" bug reporting
- mechanism for now.
-
- One question, though: have you tried toggling the VIDEO_FASTPASTE DOS
- setting?
-
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