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From: darkness@altger.alt.sub.org (Stefan Willmeroth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Need Help: Clipboard-Access for OldApps
Keywords: Programming, Clipboard, Help
Message-ID: <118@altger.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 90 13:55:58 GMT
Sender: darkness@altger.UUCP
Organization: ALTOS Computer Systems Munich, West Germany
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A short question to the real insiders...

How does an Old-App running inside a virtual machine access the 
Windows-Clipboard? I suppose Microsoft defined some interrupts to 
manage this, because their Word 5.0 (the text-based version) is able 
to exchange text and graphics through the Clipboard. This feature 
already worked within Windows 2.X and continued to run with Version 
3.0.
I already searched my SDK 2.11 documentation (the regular update 
hasnt yet arrived here in Germany) for information -- without success.
These function calls would greatly improve my way of exchanging data 
between a DOS-App and Microsoft Excel. It would be too much work to 
rewrite the whole thing into an Windows-App.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Stefan Willmeroth