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First post, by mtguido

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I have installed dosbox on a machine with Windows 7 Home premium 64b in order to use an old MS-dos application 32b. All work perfectly but for my work I need absolutely to select and copy text of this application. How can i do it? It is necessary. Thank you for your help.

Reply 9 of 15, by Qbix

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the program will probably work in dosbox
but selecting and copying text not.
If you want the contents of the screen, take a screenshot

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Reply 10 of 15, by ripsaw8080

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Sounds like only copying out of DOSBox is needed, not pasting into. If so, you could use a resident DOS program that can capture the text on the screen to a file, then you can open the file in Notepad or whatever and copy what is needed into the clipboard.

Reply 12 of 15, by eL_PuSHeR

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Does DOSBox support pipes? Does your program support redirection with pipes?

E.g. dir > content.txt

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Reply 13 of 15, by Dominus

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and to make it even more obscue, you could make a screenshot in dosbox and use an OCR program to read the text out of the picture. If that works you could probably script it via autohotkey or something like that 😀

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