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INFO APAR FOR WINOS2 CLIPBOARD DDE OLE PROBLEMS                                 
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Clipboard Questions and Answers                                                 
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Problem: Copying, cutting or pasting using the clipboard is                     
         slow with Windows Applications.  This is                               
         particulary noticable in MS Excel and other                            
         Windows applications.                                                  
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Answer:  Most applications that copy information to the                         
         clipboard copy data in multiple formats.  In the                       
         case of Excel, 16 different formats.  When the                         
         Windows clipboard is public, the computer must do                      
         additional conversion of data to the OS2 clipboard                     
         The solution to this is that if the customer can                       
         make the Windows clipboard private, the speed of                       
         cutting and pasting will be similar to that of                         
         DOS/Windows.  The only problem with this is that                       
         anything copied from the Windows session cannot be                     
         pasted to OS2 unless clipboard data is exported and                    
         when trying to paste data copied from an OS2                           
         session, another WINOS2 session or a DOS Session,                      
         data must be imported.  The only way to make a                         
         WINOS2 seamless session private is to make a                           
         permanent change removing 3 ";clipbrd" statements                      
         from the WINOS2 SYSTEM.INI file.                                       
         The performance issue is being addressed.  This                        
         will be made available at a undetermined future                        
         date.                                                                  
Problem: Graphics copied to clipboard from OS2 cannot be                        
         copied to a Windows application or graphics copied                     
         to the WINOS2 clipboard from a Windows application                     
         cannot be copied to an OS2 application.                                
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Answer:  This is normally a lack in about 50% of Windows                        
         applications.  Older Windows applications only                         
         support DDBs (Device Dependent Bitmaps), while OS2                     
         always creates or uses DIBs (Device Independent                        
         Bitmaps).  Since the format of DDBs and DIBs are                       
         different, Windows applications that only support                      
         DDBs can have problems in copying data to and from                     
         the public clipboard.  Because some Windows                            
         applications may handle other formats than DDBs,                       
         all Windows applications that do not handle DIBs                       
         may not exhibit this problem.                                          
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Problem: DDE  or OLE does not work correctly for Windows                        
         applications under WINOS2.                                             
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Answer:  Some Windows applications use special Windows 3.1                      
         DLL (Dynamic link library) for DDE and OLE.  These                     
         DLLs are backward compatible to Windows 3.0 and                        
         WINOS2.  Make sure that DDEML.DLL, OLECLI.DLL, and                     
         OLESRV.DLL are in the  OS2 MDOS WINOS2 directory or                    
         in the path.  If you installed OS/2-2.0 on top of                      
         DOS/Windows, these files may be in the old                             
         directory.  Otherwise, they normally can be copied                     
         from the installation disks of the Windows                             
         application that experienced the problem.                              
         For applications where DDE worked for DOS/WINDOWS,                     
         they should also work correctly under WINOS2.  Some                    
         Windows applications did not support DDE very well,                    
         therefore if you are experiencing DDE problems with                    
         a specific application, call the application                           
         company regarding DDE Support.                                         
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Problem: OLE does not work between OS2 applications and                         
         WINOS2.                                                                
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Answer:  OLE is not supported under Presentation Manager.                       
         Therefore, OLE will not work outside WINOS2.                           
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Problem: OS2 Clipboard does not recognize data that may be                      
         in private formats.                                                    
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Answer:  Even though the clipboard does not display or show                     
         data being available in the OS2 clipboard, it may                      
         be available to applications that support that                         
         private format.                                                        
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