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MARKIT version 1.0 - Documentation
Copyright (c) 1992 Dan Romik
What is MARKIT?
MARKIT is a cheap shareware (see later on in this document for details
on registering) TSR (terminate and stay resident) utility, that enables
you to copy and paste text with the mouse while working in your favorite
text-mode environment (for example the MS-DOS command interpreter), in
a way similar to X-windows.
How to use MARKIT?
At the DOS command line type: MARKIT
The copyright message will appear, immediately followed by the message
"MARKIT successfully installed." (assuming no problems exist, such as not
having a mouse). You will be back at the DOS command line, with MARKIT
now resident in memory. The mouse cursor will appear at the middle of
the screen. Now you can mark text on the screen, by pressing the left
mouse button at the beginning of the area to be marked, dragging
the mouse to the end of the section you want to mark, and releasing the
left button. The text will be highlighted in inverse video as you mark it,
and will return to normal video when you release the mouse button. Once
the text has been marked, it is stored in MARKIT's internal text buffer.
Now you can stuff the text into the keyboard buffer by pressing the right
mouse button. This is basically MARKIT's function.
When you work with MARKIT, you will ocassionally run an application
that uses the mouse. MARKIT will automatically sense when another
application is trying to use the mouse, and will stop functioning, but
still reside in memory. However, MARKIT has no way of sensing when the
program stops using the mouse, so it has a "hotkey" which you can press,
to tell MARKIT to show the mouse cursor and resume functioning. The hotkey
is CTRL-1 (the 1 above the letter Q, not the keypad 1), but you can change
it using the command line switches (see later on). There is also a hotkey
to tell MARKIT to suspend functioning and remove the mouse cursor. This is
useful if you are in some application that does not use the mouse and the
mouse cursor is disturbing you or is messing up the screen (see bugs and
limitations section). The hotkey for suspending MARKIT is CTRL-2 (it can
also be changed).
Command line switches
?, -? Show a help screen
-bBUFSIZE Set text buffer size. Default is 2000, which can hold a
whole screen in 80x25 text mode. If you have memory
limitations, you may want to reduce this. The code itself
currently takes up about 1k of memory, so even with the
maximum buffer size, it will take only 3k, which is very
reasonable for a TSR.
-u Uninstall a previous copy of MARKIT. This may not work
if there are other TSRs installed after MARKIT, or if you
are marking or stuffing something right now.
-rXXY Set resume hotkey (default CTRL-1). XX is the scan code
of the hotkey, in hexadecimal base, and Y (hexadecimal too)
is the mask of the lower four bits of the keyboard status
byte (this mask contains the information about the CTRL,
SHIFT and ALT state). You can find out the "XXY value" of
any key combination with the SCANCODE utility included with
this package.
-sXXY Set suspend hotkey (default CTRL-2). XX and Y are the same
as above.
Bugs and limitations
- In some applications, the mouse cursor messes up the screen when the
screen gets updates. In any case, the text does not get messed up,
only the colors in some places on the screen.
- MARKIT has been found to crash the system while running some (very few)
applications. However, I have found this to be true in almost every TSR
I have seen, and it is simply because TSRs are a tricky thing, and it is
impossible to handle all possible exceptions. So consider yourself warned!
I will not be liable to any damages caused while running MARKIT on your
system.
- Marking text when the screen is scrolling produces unpredictable
results.
- MARKIT only works in 80x25 text mode.
Registering and/or contacting the author
MARKIT is distributed under the shareware system. This means that you
can use the program for a while, and if you like it and want to continue
using it, you must send the author (me) a small sum of money. Since this
is not a big program, it costs only 5$. However, it is a very useful
program for some people, and if you find it so, it is surely worth 5$.
Of course, nobody is forcing you to register, but if you want to see more
such great utilities, you'd better help make me and other shareware authors
want to distribute them.
Anyway, to register MARKIT, send 5$ to the following address:
Dan Romik
Hanasi Harishon 35
Rehovot 76303
Israel
Upon registration, you will receive a letter acknowledging your
registration. If you have any comments, bug reports etc. they would be
welcome.
(Even if you do not register, you can distribute this program as much as
you want, as long as you distribute the entire package as a whole)
I can also be reached on the internet as: romik@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il
Feel free to send me email if you have any comments.
Hope you like my program!
-Dan Romik