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From: gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Editor with DecWindows
Message-ID: <1991May6.123655@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 6 May 91 19:36:55 GMT
References: <1991May2.150153.18386@cm.cf.ac.uk> <1991May6.132302.11959@pronto.mh.nl>
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In article <1991May6.132302.11959@pronto.mh.nl>, jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
|> 
|> ... except that you cannot cut&paste between DECwindows applications
|> (like DECterm) and standard X11 applications (like GNU Emacs/Epoch)
|> since DECwindows uses a different cut/paste mechanism.

This isn't true.  DECwindows uses the same selection mechanism as MIT.   
 
I regularly cut and paste between DEC and MIT apps and it works just fine.

Have you actually tried this?  

-joel