If anyone is interested and has the time, there's a wealth of reliable information to be mined at:

http://www.ship2000.com/Ship2000.nsf/5a8ba7baee61c43c802565df004ad3ff/29a84b3de62b2a0e802566b300416c04?OpenDocument

It's a cold link; you'll have to cut and paste.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), August 08, 1999

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Hey Old Git, How do you cut and paste. I'm a 50 year old farmer that is just learning about computers. Working 50 hours a week at min wage to pay the bills,and trying to prepare for y2k,I've posted here a few times,but only asking questions,I'm not dumb just don't have much time.It is midnight now and I have to get up at six to feed the animals,before I go to work,is there a simple easy way to do this? thanks I'll check for an answer in the morning

-- Daryll (twinck@wfeca.net), August 09, 1999.

Daryll -

I hope you have Netscape.

Move the cursor (blinking vertical line) to the start of the current URL address shown under "location" at the top of the page. Hold down the left button of your mouse and move the cursor to the end of the URL. This should highlight the whole address in dark blue. Then hit the "delete" key in the keys next to your main keys on the keyboard.

Then move the cursor to the start of the URL you want to "paste." Highlight as above. Then click on the right button on your mouse. This should make a pop down menu show up. Click on "copy." Then move the cursor to the blank you made in the "location" line. Right click the mouse button and choose "paste" on the popdown menu. It should paste the new URL. Move cursor to end of that URL and hit "enter." It should go to the new website.

If you use Explorer, your on your own - sorry.

-- marsh (armstrng@sisqtel.net), August 09, 1999.

DARRYL,grow some millet. it,s very nutrisious. and good for bird-traps.=BAIT. as in DOVE-PIE.

-- permaculture=saves. (dogs@zianet.com), August 09, 1999.

Here you go OG. The whole site is pretty impressive

Ship2000: Key Views from Relevant Agencies -- The Millennium Project Guide for the Shipping Industry

-- Brian (imager@home.com), August 09, 1999.

Thanks, Brian. I'm very familiar with Det Norske Veritas, one of the entities mentioned as responsible for the site and info--highly reputable. DNV is an international organization responsible for certifying mechanical and safety systems on ships, has designated inspectors in major ports to do frequent scheduled checks on just about anything that moves on a ship, except the crew. Their word is law! For anyone who wants to see what's Y2K vulnerable on a ship, this site is the place to go.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), August 09, 1999.

Darryl -

To continue the "lesson" a little bit. (I can't grow anything, and since I've got to rely on you (generically) for grocieries, I figure you can rely on me on "typewriter lessons." 8<))

What's described above is literally "cutting" and pasting - transplating literally. The text is deleted (cut) from the original, and copied to the buffer. Once in the buffer (a temporary - one shot - memory available to the computer, you can "paste" it someplace else.

Less intrusive, and therefore safer is "copying and pasting." Both processes can be used for any text field in the internet, not just "html's" or links.

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To copy any text, you highlight the text, then you copy it to the buffer, then you paste it from the buffer to the new location. Look at each of these three things as a separate operation: we'll assume you're using windows 3.1, window 95 or 98, or windows nt. (Similar in a Mac machine.)

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There are several ways to highlight or select text. Above is one way to it by mouse: move the mouse to where you want to start the selection. Push the left mouse button down, keep it down, move it to where you want to end the selection, lift the button. The text should be darkened (hightlighted) to show it is selected.

I prefer to use the keys: move the cursor (not you (the human curser) - the arrow (the mouse cursor)) to where you want to start the selection. Click the left mouse button once. Press the shift key and keep it down; then the arrow keys to move the mouse up, down, left ot right. The text will be highlighted to show it is selected.

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Now, using one of these techniques, you have a bunch of text selected.) Now, copy it to the buffer, or cut it to the buffer.

To cut it to the buffer, hit the [Delete] button - the text will be removed from its current file, and loaded into the buffer. Warning: the buffer is is a temporary thing - the next stuff to get copied to the buffer will erase the current thing already in the buffer.

Or: Look at the top of your menu screen: Click on the "edit" menu, then look for the "Cut" command. (If it is available to the program, it will be in dark letters. If the programmer didn't turn it "on" you can't use the mouse.

Other ways to "cut to the buffer": Press the [Control] key at the same time as the "X" key. (This is usually abbreviated as "Ctrl-x" or "Ctrl+x"). This keyboard command is always available, all the time, so I prefer it to any mouse "point and click" command.

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Copying to the buffer is safer. It leaves the original text in place, but still copies it the temporary buffer.

To copy to the buffer, select the text you want to copy. Then push the right mouse button, then the "copy" command in the little dialog box that shows up.

Or, go to the "edit" menu at the top of the page, click once, then select "copy" from the menu list.

Or, most convenient in my opinion, use [ctrl+c] from the keyboard.

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To paste your selected text. Go to where you want your text to show up. Click there.

You can then select "Edit" from the menu at top of the page, then select "paste." the text will show up.

Or you can click where you want the text to show up. Then press "[ctrl+v].

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If you goof, to "undo" what you have just done, use [ctrl+z].

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It's easier to remember the control keys if you think of:

ctrl+x is to cut. It looks like a scissors.

ctrl+v is to stick in, or insert, (v looks like an arrow or the old "editer's mark" your teacher used to use to correct your papers.)

ctrl+c is to copy (C is copy)

ctrl+z is to undo, (z is the last thing you did, it is last letter do in the alphabet)

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), August 09, 1999.