Copy/paste from classic to X

ebolag4

ebolag4

Fundamentalist whack-job
Don't know if this belongs in this forum or the Classic, but here goes.

I have a problem copying something (like text) from Classic and trying to paste it into anything in X. Everytime I try, it crashes Classic, and causes the foreground application in X for a few moments.

Is this a universal problem? Does anybody know a fix for this?
 
For me, it's a sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't thing. It usually takes about 3 or 4 copies before it'll recognize it in the other OS.

It shouldn't cause anything to crash, though. I've never had that problem.
 
I use Mac OS 8.6 but I have a thought on why this happened. You see when you're in Mac OS 9 the clipboard(where the "copied information is stored) is a different version then the one that exists in Mac OS X. So if you were trying to copy a lot of work (ie. 2-3 pages) then just copy the Mac OS 9 clipboard onto a floppy and open it in Mac OS X. See if it works I have no experience but it's a thought. Can you try it and e-mail me @ spirodrummer@netscape.net and tell me if it works. Thanks.
 
No offense, spiro, but I'm looking for a fix, not a workaround. This is especially unacceptable since I never use floppies anymore. I could do the same by saving to the hard drive I suppose, but we're not talking big blocks of text or anything here. It's actually usually faster to write it down.

I agree with aluminum. This does tend to be an IE problem. I would probably just dump IE if it didn't happen in other apps as well. Plus the fact that I'm not as anti-IE as most others on the boards.
 
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