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- Nov. 15, 1993
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- Program Name: CLIPMONO.EXE
- For Operating System: Windows 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.
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- 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.
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- Usage
- -----
-
- ClipMono is easy to use. Simply run the CLIPMONO.EXE program
- from an icon (or optionally stick the program name into the 'LOAD='
- section of WIN.INI). Sorry, you have to create the program manager
- entry yourself. There is no SETUP program.
-
- 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).
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- Menu Options
- ------------
-
- 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 "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 "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).
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- Miscellaneous Information
- -------------------------
-
- 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.
- (Or even quicker, just terminate ClipMono!)
-
- 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.
-
-
- Note: to clear the clipboard, use the "Delete" option of the Window's
- Clipboard viewer (not ClipMono). Or just copy a empty block to the
- clipboard using the clipboard copy option, used in many Window's
- applications.
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-
- Enjoy the program!
-
- Joe
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