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

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> 
> 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
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> 
> 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

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