The clipboard viewer that comes with windows has a File, Save As option. >From that, you get both the option to name the file and set the location. As the CDRW, formatted as a packet disk, behaves as another drive, you can set the location to save as that drive from the viewer.
Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Keith, > > That is true for a hard drive and similiar. BUT InCD and other similar > programs are making a CD look and act like a psuedo- hard drive, but the CD > is not obviously. And that is what I think the problem is with trying to > save from the clipboard directly to the CD. That was the reason for my > sugguestion of saving whatever is out on the clipboard to an actual file on > the hard drive, zip cart, or other similar media, and then move the > resulting file to the CD to be written. > > Ralph > > > Keith Thompson > <kthomps7@columbu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > s.rr.com> cc: > Sent by: Subject: Re: PCWorks: InCD and long >file names > owner-pcworks@ima > gicomm.com > > > 05/06/02 08:55 AM > Please respond to > pcworks > > > > If you use the clipboard viewer that comes with windows (Start, > Programs, Accesories, System Tools, Clipboard viewer) you can save out > of that in a file format. > > Keith Thompson > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Tom, > > > > I think the problem is trying to use the clipboard as the middle device. > I > > dont think any of the programs, such as InCD, DirectCD, or others, can > > support doing what you want to do - meaning copying directly from the > > clipboard to somewhere to save as a file directly. > > > > Your best bet will always be to open Notepad, Word, or some other word > > processor program, if text or similar data, or open an audio or video > > program if it is a multimedia type of file, or some other program to > handle > > the respective data you are trying to save, inporting from the clipboard > to > > the file you have open, save the file, and then moving the file to the > CD. > > > > Ralph > > > > > > Tom > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > et> cc: > > Sent by: Subject: PCWorks: InCD > and long file names > > owner-pcworks@ima > > gicomm.com > > > > > > 05/04/02 07:38 AM > > Please respond to > > pcworks > > > > > > > > using the Ahead InCD program to format a CDRW I tried > > copying a file to the clipboard then pasting it to the CDRW. > > A dialogue box came up saying that long file names were not > > supported and gave me the choice of an eight by three name. > > > > However, I am able to save files with long file names from > > notepad, wordpad etc. and I am able to copy files with long > > file names in DOS. > > > > Anyone know why it won't work with copy/paste? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tom Dimeo > > -- > Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH > Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ > Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson > Help Page: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ > Discoveries are often made by not following instructions. -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson Help Page: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Discoveries are often made by not following instructions. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
