Apple 7300, 4400 manual Chapter

Copying and pasting information between the Mac OS and Windows environments

You can exchange certain kinds of information between the Mac OS and Windows environments using the Copy and Paste commands in the Edit menu in both environments. To do this, the PC Clipboard extension and Macintosh Easy Open (Mac OS Easy Open) control panel must be installed in the Mac OS and the WINCLIP utility must be installed in Windows.

The PC Clipboard translates the following information formats:

mWindows CF_TEXT to/from Mac OS TEXT

mWindows RTF to/from Mac OS RTF

mWindows DIB to/from Mac OS PICT

To determine the format of information in the Mac OS, you can paste the material into the Scrapbook.

Note: Copying and pasting between DOS and the Mac OS is not supported. However, you can paste information into the MS-DOS prompt in Windows 95 by using the paste button. If you want to translate information between the DOS and Mac OS environments, you can exchange files via a file translation program.

When transferring information between the Mac OS and Windows 95, keep the following in mind:

mIf you have the PC Clipboard extension installed, the Mac OS and Windows 95 share a Clipboard. That means if you copy an item to the Mac OS Clipboard, switch to Windows 95, and then copy an item to the Windows 95 Clipboard, the original Mac OS Clipboard contents will be deleted.

To prevent this, you can turn off Automatic Document Translation in the Macintosh Easy Open (Mac OS Easy Open) control panel, or you can remove the PC Clipboard extension from the Extensions folder (inside the System Folder in the Mac OS). Removing the extension turns off Clipboard translation between Mac OS and Windows 95.

Note: If you remove the PC Clipboard extension, you will see an alert message every time you switch from the PC to the Mac OS.

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