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From: defaria@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: DOS for Windows
Message-ID: <45950009@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 15 May 91 06:58:11 GMT
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>/ hpcupt3:comp.windows.ms / royce@minnie.cs.su.OZ.AU (Royce William Paul Lithgo) /  7:32 pm  May 13, 1991 /
>What we really need for Windows is something like the xterm application
>for X windows. This enables you to run a shell (UNIX) inside a window that has
>a slider bar and adjustable buffer (e.g. 500 lines). One of the really nice
>features of xterm is that you can select text from the window (e.g. really long
>command or file name) using the mouse and when you hit one of the mouse buttons
>the selected text is automatically reproduced at the cursor position.
>
>Hope this inspires somebody to create such a beast for Windows!!

Can't you just run a DOS shell in a window?  I'm told that you can do this but
I can't verify it because I have a 286 an the option for running it in a
window it listed under the 386 options.

Course this doesn't solve the cut-and-paste issue but I have written my own
shell that allows me to cut-and-paste (although I here that it is difficult to
coerce Windows into letting you grab the mouse I haven't been able to try it
with my 286 :-(.