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From: richard%aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: selection service problem
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Date: 23 Mar 89 07:41:51 GMT
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> The symptom of my problem is that the selected
> text appears underlined and no cut, paste,  etc... operations work.

The SunView 1 Beginner's Guide, p106:

If a text window gets stuck so it makes only secondary selections, press
the STOP key to reset the window.

This sounds like your problem.

-- Richard