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First post, by Abimelech

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(Pardon for grammar mistakes, English is not my native language.) How to copy some text to clipboard in DosBox ? I run debug.exe through the emulator and need copy text to clipboard.
Common method (click mouse on the status bar, > amend > mark > and then shift+arrow key to mark text) does not work.

Reply 2 of 9, by Abimelech

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Is there free emulators for win 7 OS that support this ?

Reply 3 of 9, by Malvineous

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If you can find a DOS version of the "tee" utility (Wikipedia says maybe 4DOS has one?) you might be able to use it to redirect debug's output to a file - e.g. "debug hello.bat | tee out.txt". Then you can use debug as normal, and all text will be saved in out.txt. You can open out.txt in Notepad and copy from that if you need the text.

Alternatively if you can boot a real copy of DOS, you can use the CTTY command to send all output to a serial port, and accept input from the serial port. If you configure DOSBox to redirect that serial port to a TCP connection, then you can use a terminal emulator like PuTTY to access the DOS command line, where you can run debug and copy the output. You'll need to boot real DOS for this, as DOSBox's built in emulator doesn't support CTTY.

Reply 4 of 9, by Abimelech

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thank you.

Reply 5 of 9, by IIGS_User

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Qbix wrote:

not supported

Would be interesting to support it to let play Infocom text adventures 😐

Klimawandel.

Reply 7 of 9, by IIGS_User

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collector wrote:

Otherwise, are you simply wanting to be able to copy/paste commands from a walkthrough?

I was thinking of this one. 😀

Klimawandel.

Reply 9 of 9, by IIGS_User

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Yeah. 🤣

Klimawandel.