Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!linc.cis.upenn.edu!farber From: farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: A simple question Message-ID: <12590@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 1 Jul 89 23:30:08 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 9 Often I want to paste the contants of a text file produced by the Editor into a Shell window. The ONLY way I can find to do it is to invoke the Editor on the file, select all copy then go to the Shell window and paste . Rather a pain. One would like to just 'paste" the contents of the file into the window. is that doable. if not why? David Farber; Prof. of CIS and EE, U of Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 Tele: 215-898-9508(off); 215-274-8292 (home); FAX: 215-274-8192; Cellular: 302-740- 1198 "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- R. P. Feynman