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Old 02-09-2010, 07:42 PM   #64
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
Like DOS, but not: it's a terminal program, playing like it's an old-style terminal,
A windows based ASCII terminal program (ie Telnet) permits cut and pasting. A standard DOS terminal program did not have options such as 'cut, copy, and paste'.

However, programs provide by Logitech permitting writing scripts so that mouse functions could be implemented into DOS programs. If the Logitech program or its script did not load properly, then mouse functions for that DOS program would stop working.
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