PASTE.EXE (VERSION 1.0) Copyright (c) 1994, Robert Lausevic ------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Published in PC Magazine October 25, 1994 (Utilities) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PasteBoard by Robert Lausevic PURPOSE: PasteBoard lets you cut, copy, and paste text from several sources or several areas within a file without switching back and forth. After you launch PasteBoard, no extra keyboard or mouse activity is required until you're ready to paste. SETUP: To install PasteBoard, copy PASTE.EXE into the directory of your choice and if you don't already have VBRUN300.DLL and CMDIALOG.VBX, copy them into your Windows system directory (usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM). Then create an icon for PasteBoard in a Program Manager group. If you want access to PasteBoard at all times, add PasteBoard to your StartUp group. REMARKS: PasteBoard works by appending the contents of the Clipboard to the pasteboard every time you cut or copy new information. The pasteboard has a limit of 30,000 characters. If this limit is exceeded, the pasteboard will store only the most recent 30,000 characters. Instead of the .CLP files used by Windows' Clipboard, PasteBoard works with pure ASCII files. Although it does not have the Clipboard's ability to store binary data such as bitmaps, PasteBoard adds editing capability. You can edit pasteboard text, save it to a file, or load a file into the pasteboard. PasteBoard's split bar lets you decide how to share the window between the Clipboard and pasteboard. Use the Edit menu to clear the Clipboard, clear the pasteboard, copy all of the text from the pasteboard to the Clipboard, or copy the selected text from the pasteboard to the Clipboard. The Display menu lets you show the text in PasteBoard in either the standard Windows proportional font (the Text menu option) or a fixed-width font (the Fixed Text menu option). The Help menu's How To... option walks you through your first cut-and-paste job using PasteBoard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Lausevic's utility, PASTEBOARD won PC Magazine's "Write a Utility. Win a Fridge" contest. He is a programmer at Intel Corp. in Folsom, California whre he develops decision-support applications in Visual Basic. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------