From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What's a good stand-alone editor?
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:30:57 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
> > Yes, but I forgot to mention that Edit.com 95 allows files
> > up to 64,000 lines, while Notepad and your edit.exe are
> > limited to 64,000 *bytes.*
>
> Emacs can edit files up to 128MB, and is unlimited in line length and
> the number of lines.
>
> > And how did you support Windows 95 close requests
> > and the Windows clipboard under DOS?
I'm writing my own program. I want to know how to make
it use the Windows clipboard.
>
> Emacs supports the Windows clipboard automatically.  As for close
> requests, I don't understand what is the problem.  Care to explain?

Close requests: Click the close box, and it'll exit without
saving changes. Click the close box in Edit.com, and it'll
ask if you want to save changes.

How does a DOS program do this?