Date:	Tue, 20 May 1997 18:59:43 +0100
From:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	Re: edit / opendos CD
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-id:	<142ABB378DC@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen

On Sun, 18 May 1997 Matt Adam wrote:

> 1) taskmgr doesn't have anything akin to the windows clipboard, does it?
> i think it would be super-froopy if i could transfer text in-between
> programs.

Novell DOS/OpenDOS TASKMGR does not, but DR DOS 6.0 TASKMAX did 
(several import/export functions between the windows).  After the 
sources of TASKMGR and EMM386 will be released, we may look up if 
the import/export features have been only outcommented or have been
stripped off completely (and for what reason).  However, the 
multitasking kernel offers quite alot of queuing mechanisms, so 
that the reimplemention of copy & paste functions should be rather 
easy.

At present you may use a poor-mans variant of import/export 
functions by using screen shot utilities writing the screen 
contents to a file that can be manually handled to the keyboard 
buffer after switching to another task.  

Our K3PLUS enhanced keyboard driver provides some nice features to 
assist you in doing so: (I cannot remember the actual name of the 
character device right no, so there might be some fuzz with the '$' 
chars below, please have a look at the docs.)

 COPY scrnshot.lst > \dev\kbd$buf$ 
                     (or \dev\k3plus$$ with older K3PLUS releases)
                     
You may also use the 4DOS KEYSTACK method, also fully emulated by 
K3PLUS.  Additionally our keyboard driver provides a so called 
CopyCursor feature (a second cursor is available by hotkey, that is 
able to walk on the screen, not being restricted by the current video 
mode, nor an application's input/output focus:  While reading the 
contents below the cursor shape, it emulates keystrokes).  For 
FreeKEYB, our next release of 'K3PLUS', we have plans to enhance 
this feature by adding means to first stuffing emulated keystrokes 
in a FIFO queue, and than (e.g. after switching tasks) flushing it on 
pressing a hotkey.  At present, for an international (stable) alpha 
version, you'd have to contact Axel or me directly; an (older) German 
version is available for download on my web page and other sites.

 Matthias
 
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