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First post, by kconover

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I am using DOSBox on a Win 7 Pro 64-bit laptop, to run HyGen, which is arguably the first hypertext program, from Neil Larson of MaxThink. I use it to take and hyperlink medical notes. I would like to be able to paste into it from Windows.

When I run DOXbox and have the following in the autoexec section:

mount C C:\notebook
C:
hygen
exit

I get two windows.

First is DOSbox Status window. If I click the top left System Window, it shows options to Edit > Paste etc.
In front of this is a window that says

DOSBox 0.74, CPU speed: 3000 cycles, Frameskip 0, Program: Hygen.

But this window's System Menu does not have an Edit option, so I cannot use this to paste into Hygen.

Is there a way to allow pasting?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Reply 2 of 2, by frobme

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You can technically accomplish simple paste with a product like AutoIt:

http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/

However, it won't give you cut capability. There are a huge number of reasons this is a terrible idea for DosBox, but we can start with just one significant one: there was no cut and paste concept in the original DOS environment DosBox tries to re-create. DOS just wasn't built for it. You have to support cut and paste at the OS level for it to make any real sense (with some work, you could do one for text that would work at the DOS prompt itself - but games don't need this).

Also, see this extremely relevant post:

DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION

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