NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/25010

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Stupid (i.e. neat) CMD.EXE tricks
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 14:53:52 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Don Smith) writes:
>In article <keOUree00Vp94=[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
>>    Point two: When working with windowed command shells, you can neatly
>>    scroll around the window without using the scroll bars, what you do is
>>    drag the mouse as if you're selecting something, then move the mouse
>>    outsize of the window, and it will scroll in that direction.  For example,
>>    I just compiled my program that has lots of errors, and I'm using a 102
>>    line windowed command shell.  To see the stuff that's already scrolled
>>    off the top of the window, I press the mouse button and hold it (inside
>>    the window) and then drag, moving the poiner ABOVE the border of the
>>    window, and it scrolls up!  NEAT!   Scrollbars are a thing of the past!?
>
>
>Huh? I tried this in my windowed CMD.EXE and 4OS2.EXE sessions and it
>doesn't work in either. Can anybody verify this?
>--
>   | Don Smith     (yahweh)      |  Its a Satanic drug thing....     |
>   |[e-mail]     |    ....you wouldn't understand.   |
>   |[e-mail]   |                                   |
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hereby verified!

Eirik
[e-mail]