Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!news-out.netnews.com!feed-3.dca.netnews.com!dca.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=3:XGCjf0CJb:iCDmkJ2@IdHWonT5<]0Tm@GOK[m5A6Wb3[L8B6BE9jmG]B:S<74_1m^:lZX>fNCdb?`dTjf`b32mb0M@O_V6DUf1O6ZH_@QN0l X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net From: Brock McNuggets Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:45:22 -0700 Message-ID: <1793324722.5076CFBF@gmail.com> References: <11bjog6$1tp5$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <11bmdve$nvr$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <11bn2cq$cs6i$1@dont-email.me> <25v4rmxm5u.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <11brs50$2a3q$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <16o9rmxi4d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <11btkac$31cs$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <11bu5tk$277$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <11buafq$2vk50$1@dont-email.me> <11bucrl$2601$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <3plbrmxam5.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <11bvog5$3f8jk$1@dont-email.me> <4ilcrmx02i.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <11c0af1$3ml8s$1@dont-email.me> <11c0rcu$eh8$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Organization: Southern Nevada Institute of Technology X-Face: OE,U*3RQg$PaaY%:;s[%.TJFTqzGM9EL:D&.YbCOm5!c%xV@y]sZp1}|4z1e#&fu-CsQTGDv=2VH@#1t(zS,vzeoae-"89+OP('Dg:*IE(xZ}mm-/F&uPp'JhzS4($RUX5[,9lVU*4>+h03"l>poLm%m13'*KZ}:Zp5,eX)-dy{=ut.[~J=G#Go MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Loom GS/1.0 (macOS) Lines: 62 NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1793324723 reader.netnews.com 23 127.0.0.1:38763 X-Received-Bytes: 4250 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:156751 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:203322 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:149950 alt.comp.os.windows-10:197363 On 29 Oct 2026, Maria Sophia wrote in <11c0rcu$eh8$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>: > Paul wrote: >>> What I do, is fire up the Cx file manager in Android, select >>> "network", then start its internal FTP server. Then reach that >>> server from Linux with any standard tools in my LAN. >>> >>> It works for me, easy and fast, because I am used to these kind >>> of tools. And the computer source of the files I'm now >>> transferring doesn't have BT configured. >> >> Between windows machines and between windows and Linux, the >> Bluetooth Send worked from either end. It was something that >> worked earlier in the life of their hand-hewn BT stack. >> >> The Bluetooth TCP/IP stack on the other hand, that wasn't working >> until relatively recently. And maybe that would be part of what >> the CX Explorer is doing. > > Just to note the initial problem was the clipboard, but, of > course, the clipboard can be pasted into a file on most platforms > other than iOS. The clipboard can be pasted into a file on iOS. Of course. In fact, in iOS 27 they made it even easier -- maybe something that already existed on Android. Don't know. But even before that it was easy. > > On iOS the clipboard can be pasted into a file too, as Nick > Charles kindly suggested, but you have to do it the Apple way, > which isn't always intuitive. Hold and get a menu or, now, just see it above the keyboard. How can you get easier on a small touch screen? > Luckily, with Vysor or scrcpy the Android/desktop clipboard is > shared. 1. Click one is copy the clipboard (on one platform) 2. > Click two is control-V on the keyboard (on the other platform) > That works on iOS to macOS (well, Command+V, which is the norm there and easier to use on most keyboards, AND Command does not cause problems with terminals). > Luckily, with Vysor, even iOS can be two steps with Windows. > > But, it's about 20 steps (or so) on iOS if you use the Apple way > to do it. On iOS you copy and paste. It "just works". > > If anyone on the Apple ng can get that down to the 2 clicks that > it should be, that would be an improvement over the kludge way > Apple does things. Select. Copy. Move to where you want it. Paste. Done. -- It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with you.