From: DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
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Subject: Re: What's a good stand-alone editor?
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 03:17:26 GMT
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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:30:57 GMT, "Damian Yerrick"
<web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote:

>I'm writing my own program. I want to know how to make
>it use the Windows clipboard.

I have a feeling there's a library around somewhere for doing all
sorts of neat DOS-under-Windows thing like that.

Alternatively, there's some info about it on my web page (see my sig).
(Basically, Windows provides various functions to DOS programs through
an API - it allows things such as clipboard access, and changing
window title etc)

>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?

Not sure. I'm guessing it uses the aforementioned API.

Davin.
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