bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) (03/30/90)
If you have, or have had, SIMTEL's PD version of Instant Recall
installed as a TSR under MSDOS 3.xx, not PCDOS, I would be grateful for
your brief Yes/No answers to three questions:
1. Have you succesfully cut and pasted from the screen into an
Instant Recall record?
2. If so, have you tried it in the presence of SIMTEL's PD version of
CED as a TSR?
3. And succeeded ?
If your answers are Yes Yes Yes, I think you may be close to unique.
So I would value your comment on a fourth question:
4. Did you have to do anything special to achieve that?
The rest of this item is background to my query - not essential reading!
Hylton
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I have had the PD version of CED happily installed in my XT clone with
MSDOS 3.20 for about 18 months. It is central to how I organize my PC
and sits below PCTools Shell (one of the Version 5's).
Until a few days ago it also sat happily under PCTools Desktop, but I
find Desktop heavy going so I hardly ever used it, and I decided to
look through the SIMTEL archives for earlier well-regarded programmes
that do just the one thing they are good at.
I decided to try the PD version of Instant Recall. Since the version in
SIMTEL carries the wrong explanation of how to install it as a TSR, it
may be that relatively few people have used it as a TSR and that very
few people indeed are in a position to comment on IR + CED . [ A few
hours with DEBUG yielded the missing information - I've sent Keith
Petersen a tiny read.me to add to his archive ]
All went well until I tried to use the IR Cut and Paste facility from the
screen into an IR record. Then the pasting went mad. It:
delivered a line or two of what I had marked;
delivered repeated chunks of CED history information;
occasional switched into other records ( which it therefore bombed);
stopped only in response to CTRL-C.
I realise this probably indicates an incompatible use of interrupts,
and have so far experimented with a variety of TSR stripping-out and
TSR resequencing without finding a cure.
Hence my questions above, to try to gauge whether this is an impossible
mission or whether it is worth a determined few days, weeks, ....
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