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Cut and Paste

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From: Kevin Darling
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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