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In article <FWP1.91Feb3192743@Jester.CC.MsState.Edu> writes:
>: On 3 Feb 91 19:25:02 GMT, sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) said:
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>SC> I saw this regarding Procomm plus 2.0, a new version of an MSDOS based
>SC> modem communications program.
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>SC>      There's also an enhanced Dialing Directory with sorting, and the 
>SC>      ability to attach notes, as well as a Filename Clipboard, for 
>SC>      which a patent has been applied, allowing filenames to be cut 
>SC>      from the screen to an "electronic clipboard" while online. 
>SC>      Current owners of Procomm Plus can upgrade for just $39. The full 
>SC>      retail price is $119. 
>SC>      
>SC> Does anyone know about this Filename Clipboard thingie? If it does
>SC> what it sounds like, I'd swear I've seen something like it before. If
>SC> so, I'd love to help fight another software patent.
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>Is there some special magic being done that I'm not aware of?

The filename clipboard only works on, get this, MS-DOS file names.  It
searches the screen for things with up to eight characters, followed by
a dot, followed by three more characters.  So maybe the patent is about
how to tailor a cut/paste facility so that it is only useful to bulletin
board users running MS-DOS.

No kidding, you can't just cut/paste general text.  And even though
they've added some kind of mouse support, the cut/paste facility
doesn't use it!

There are other problems with the latest release, like it interprets
control-], so tags in vi and suspend in telnet don't work.  But that's
for another newsgroup.  I've written a letter to Datastorm.

	Rob Bedichek   robertb@cs.washington.edu

Let's see, rn won't let me post this thing above because there isn't enough
new text and I can not see what I can delete of what I have quoted without
losing too much context.  So, here is a little .signature sort of quote

   "The qualities in others that we can least tolerate are those that 
    we fear in ourselves." -me