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Subject: Re: Problem pasting in windows console (again)

Author: John Coffey

Date: 11:46:28 01/26/02

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On January 26, 2002 at 14:45:30, John Coffey wrote:

>Once again I have this problem where I wanted to take a board position like on
>Itsyourturn.com and paste it into my program (for testing purposes.)*   My
>program "mars" is a windows console application written in Microsoft Visual C++.
> I notice that there can be more than one type of console ap and I am not sure
>what all the types do.
>
>Anyhow, I wrote a parser where I could copy the source from the itsyourturn.com
>web page and paste it into my program.  Windows 98, however, is not cooperating.
>  There is too much information to paste and windows will only paste little bits
>of it at a time every time I move the mouse.  In short it seems like it is not
>going to work.
>
>My alternative is to save the source to a web page to text file and read from
>that.
>
>John Coffey


Someone had suggested (here) that I turn off fast pasting.  I found that option
under the MS-DOS properties, but it does not help.

John Coffey



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