Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 18:59:43 +0100 From: Matthias Paul 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 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Precedence: bulk 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Snail mail: Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany New eMail : Web : URL: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html --------------------------------------------------------------------