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Mar. 30, 1994
Program Name: CLIPMONO.EXE
Version: 2.0
For Operating System: Windows 3.1, Windows NT 3.1
Author: Joseph J. Tamburino
Address: 1640 Worcester Road, Apt. 104D
Framingham, MA 01701
Email: jjt@iri14.infores.com
Price: FREE
Extra Equipment: 2nd monitor and monochrome adapter card.
Purpose
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ClipMono is a Windows utility designed to capture Windows 3.1
data to a 2nd monochrome monitor. Only text data is copied.
In this fashion, one can refer to clipboard data by looking
at the separate monochrome monitor, even when the clipboard data is not
visible on the primary monitor.
Usage
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There are two versions of ClipMono:
CLIPMONO.EXE: Designed to run under WIN16 platforms such
as Windows 3.1.
NTCLPMON.EXE: Designed to run under WIN32 platforms such
as Windows NT.
MONODEV.SYS: A device driver used by NTCLPMON. Not used
with CLIPMONO.EXE.
Using CLIPMONO.EXE (for Windows 3.1):
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ClipMono is easy to use. Simply run the CLIPMONO.EXE program
from an icon (or optionally place CLIPMONO.EXE in the startup
folder for automatic startup).
As soon as you activate the program, whatever text happens to
reside in the clipboard when you launch ClipMono will instantly
appear in the monochrome monitor. (If there is no text in the
clipboard, the monochrome display won't change).
From then on, whatever text you decide to copy to the clipboard
will instantly appear on the 2nd monitor. (Ok, maybe not instantly!
If you have a large amount of data, there may be a pause while ClipMono
reformats the data).
Using NTCLPMON.EXE (for Windows NT):
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NTCLPMON requires a device driver, MONODEV.SYS, to be present in
the Windows NT system. To install MONODEV.SYS, follow these steps:
1) Under NT, start up an MSDOS session.
2) Switch to the directory containing the unzipped CLIPMONO.ZIP files.
3) Type: REGINI MONODEV.INI
4) Copy MONODEV.SYS to your SYSTEM32\DRIVERS directory (off of your NT
base directory). 5) Shutdown NT, then restart.
MONODEV.SYS should now be installed into NT. To verify that the
driver is really installed, you could open the control panel and
look at the "devices" list. Keep the "startup" setting turned
to "manual".
Now, try out NTCLPMON.EXE. Create an icon for the program,
and click on it. If all goes well, a message will be displayed
on the screen indicating that the MONODEV device has been started.
From this point forward, NTCLPMON should behave exactly like
CLIPMONO does in Windows 3.1. By placing the icon for NTCLPMON
in your Startup folder, the clipboard viewer will always be available
to you.
Menu Options
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ClipMono doesn't have a "real" menu. To activate ClipMono's menu,
left-click the ClipMono icon ONCE (the resident icon, not the
program manager icon). The ClipMono menu will appear. ClipMono's
personalized options are "Clear Clipboard", "Reposition Screen", "Tab
Size", "Refresh Screen", and "About".
Use "Reposition Screen" to change your view of the clipboard on the
monochrome monitor. (You can only select this item if there are
more than 25 lines in the clipboard). The "Reposition Screen" menu
item will pop up a scroll bar for this purpose. (Optionally, you can
use the PgUp, PgDn, Home, End, and arrow keys instead of the scroll
bar. This is a standard feature of window's scroll bars. I didn't
know this until I coded this program).
The "Tab Size" option changes the number of characters displayed
between tab stops when the clipboard data has imbedded tab characters.
The "Clear Clipboard" option will clear BOTH the monochrome
display and the actual clipboard data itself. This option effectively
destroys the clipboard and releases any memory associated with it.
The "Refresh Screen" and "About" menu items are pretty straight
forward. Use the refresh item if some other program mucks up the
monochrome screen. (Refresh will not appear to do anything if there
is no data in the clipboard, or if the monochrome screen is already
displaying the correct clipboard data).
Miscellaneous Information
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The memory requirements vary depending on the size of the clipboard
data. Due to time constraints, no effort was made to optimize the
memory required to store clipboard data. Basically, clipboard data
is stored in a fashion so as to be updated quickly on demand (using
the "Reposition" menu item). However, large clipboard documents
may require a large amount of memory. If you have virtual memory
enabled, windows can dump this memory to disk if it needs to.
But the quickest way to free the memory is to just clear the clipboard.
ClipMono always displays the approximate amount of memory it's using
to store the monochrome image. The size is displayed underneath the
program's icon. It is reported in Kbytes, or bytes / 1024.
Enjoy the program!
Revision History
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Version 1.0: Original release
Version 1.1: Maintanence release. Fixes inability to handle
clipboard data with lines which terminate with a
single newline character. ClipMono could crash
in this case.
Version 1.2: Clipboards of certain sizes would cause ClipMono
to crash. Fixed.
Version 2.0: Support for Windows NT added. MONODEV.SYS added.