Re: DosBox and Window Size

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Sorry, I was imprecise. CLIP.EXE doesn't crash--it continues to work within the emulated window. In XY4, it shows that the material was clipped as usual. But when I hop outside DosBox to, say, Notepad, it doesn't export. Ditto for moving something from Notepad to XY.

I have the feeling it's another DosBox difference.

I'm going to see if the WPDos pages offer any clues about clipboarding between DosBox and Win7,
unless someone can offer some experience.

Meanwhile, further research shows that DosBox has a configuration file, dosbox.conf, that can
probably reset the window size. If any DosBox users have already done this and can point me toward
the right lines and settings, that would be great. Otherwise I'll eventualy tweak it myself and
report back.

Jon Pareles



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> Subject: xywrite Digest V4 #73
> To: "xywrite digest users" 
> Date: Sunday, July 15, 2012, 1:15 AM
> xywrite Digest    Sun,
> 15 Jul 2012    Volume: 04  Issue: 073
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> size
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> From: Carl Distefano 
> Subject: Re: DosBox and Window size
> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 01:12:00 -0400
>
>
> Reply to note from Jon P 
> Sat, 14 Jul 2012
> 20:55:10 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Jon:
>
> > I have just added my first Windows 7 computer, a
> Thinkpad, to
> > the stable, and Portable.PM worked like a dream.
>
> Glad to hear it. It's good to have feedback from the real
> world.
>
> I'm not a DosBox user, so I can't help you with the
> screen-size
> issue. As for CLIP.EXE: this is a stab in the dark, but try
> lowering
> the ChunkSz setting in XYWWWEB.REG; this controls the size
> of the
> data pieces (chunks) processed by CLIP. To get to the
> setting,
> command REGEDIT CHUNKSZ. You should see a
> line like this:
>
> ChunkSz=8192
>
> Whatever the number is, reduce it. I would suggest
> decrements of 512
> (of course, you must SAve XYWWWEB.REG each time) until CLIP
> works or
> you get down to 1024. If CLIP still crashes at that value,
> then the
> solution lies elsewhere.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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