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- Clipper Key Documentation
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- Clipper Key (v. 1.5 or 1.6) is an FKEY resource with one purpose in life --
- to make things easier for telecommunicators using desk accessory word
- processors, by allowing them to
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- (1) process text in the clipboard for uploading, (a) inserting
- carriage returns at wordbreaks nearest to a user-selectable line length
- (default is 75), (b) changing typographers' quotation marks and apostrophes
- to the "typewriter" apostrophes that most bulletin boards will accept, (c)
- change short and long dashes to the normal hyphen, and (d) changing other
- characters with an ASCII equivalent of 128 or more to the "@" sign.
-
- (2) partly unprocess text in the clipboard by changing single carriage
- returns to spaces while leaving double carriage returns in. If you paragraph
- like this document, that means your paragraphs will remain but the returns
- at the end of each line will be deleted.
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- In general, Clipper Key should work with text copied from any Desk
- Accessory word processor. It will work erratically or not at all with text
- copied from most standard word processors, such as MacWrite, Microsoft Word,
- Edit, QUED, and so forth.
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- Clipper Key should be installed as an FKEY with ResEdit, FKEY Installer, or
- FKEY Manager. To use it, first Copy the text you want to operate on to the
- clipboard, then invoke Clipper Key.
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- (a) If you simply invoke Clipper Key, it will process the text on the
- keyboard by adding returns for a maximum line length of 75 (and converting
- characters greater than ASCII 127). You can then Paste the text back into
- your DA word processor, or anywhere else you want -- for example, into the
- modem if you are answering messages. You will be warned (and given the
- option of aborting the action) if the amount of text you have selected is
- more (more characters, or more lines) than the limits that the CompuServe
- editor will allow to be put into a single message.
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- (b) If, within a second of invoking Clipper Key, you press and hold the
- Option key, you will get a dialog box that (1) allows you to set the line
- length to something other than 75 characters, and (2) allows you to remove
- returns instead of adding returns.
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- Version 1.5 is specially written to use with CompuServe; it will warn you
- if your text exceeds 2000 characters (the limit of most SIG editors on
- CompuServe), or the maximum number of lines that SIG editors will accept.
- Version 1.6 is identical with version 1.5 except that it does not include
- those warnings.
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- Clipper Key is free, not copyrighted, and may be posted or distributed
- anywhere by anyone. I would appreciate your distributing this documentation
- file along with it so that others can more easily understand how to work it.
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- - Lofty Becker
- CompuServe 70206,67
- Delphi LOFTUSBECKER
- GEnie LOFTY
- MCIMail LBECKER
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