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Article #43496Cut and Paste
From: Kevin Darling
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 01:14
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 01:14
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The (admittedly minimal) K-Windows cut&paste saved my butt last year as well. I'd compiled a new keyboard driver version and overwrote my only boot disk with the new bootfile... but the new keyboard driver didn't work. Talk about sweating bullets. I was trapped with a non-working boot! After chewing my fingernails, it hit me that I could cut&paste letters obtained from the bootup screen text (along with some error messages I caused by clicking the left button on the cursor with some garbage commands) into enough words to build up the necessary commands to recompile a new bootdisk. So it's funny that I forgot all about cut&paste being there over the past few months, though. I was griping about wishing there was a way to copy some text from a terminal screen into an editor screen, when Mike Haaland (who's temporarily staying with me) walked up behind me and said "Why not just c&p it?" Talk about embarrassed! Duh. One day soon I'll add more lines to it. The reason I didn't at first was because it was done during an interrupt routine... and more than one line would be a horrible burden on the cpu (if it isn't already). cheers -kevin
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110568,73443d9d506f0a40,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110568,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-11-30 22:34:54 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!paladin.american.edu!auvm!COMPUSERVE.COM!76703.4227 Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: bit.listserv.coco Return-Path: <@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU:COCO@PUCC.BITNET> Message-ID: <931201011410_76703.4227_CHN116-1@CompuServe.COM> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 20:14:10 EST Reply-To: Kevin Darling <76703.4227@COMPUSERVE.COM> Sender: COCO - Tandy Color Computer List <COCO@PUCC.BITNET> From: Kevin Darling <76703.4227@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Cut and Paste Lines: 21