Copyright: Copyright (c) 1994 Springtime Software


Contents
Clip

Table of Contents

Introduction To Clip

Shareware Registration

Instructions on Using Clip

Advanced Features.

What to do if you have problems or suggestions

If you are not familiar with help, choose Help|How To Use Help from the Help menu now.


About Clip Help...

 Clip Help was written Aug. 1994 by David Spector at Springtime Software for Clip, Ver. 2.2.

The entire contents of this help file is Copyright (c) 1994 Springtime Software.  All rights are reserved.

Press the C key at any time to see the table of contents.


Shareware Registration

Note: This applies only if you are using the freely-distributed Shareware version of Clip.

If you find that you are using Clip often, we ask that you register your copy (you will receive the latest non-Shareware upgrade).

To register, send your name, address, phone nr., and a $5 check in U.S. funds to:

Springtime Software

81 Amherst Ave

Waltham, MA 02154-3167

U.S.A.


Introduction to Clip

Welcome to Springtime Software's Clipboard History utility!

Clip expands the usefulness of the Windows Clipboard by keeping a history of all objects cut or copied to the Clipboard.

The Clip dialog box contains a listbox describing these objects. Text objects are described by the text itself; objects of other formats are described by the name of their principal format and their total size, in bytes or kilobytes (1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes).


Instructions on Using Clip

To restore the contents of the Clipboard to a previous cut or copied object, simply select the object in the Clip listbox, using the arrow keys or clicking with the mouse. Selecting the listbox entry immediately causes the original data to be copied back to the Clipboard.

To dismiss the Clip listbox and return to your application, press the Enter or Escape key or double-click an entry. Double-clicking an entry selects it and moves its data to the Clipboard before dismissing the Clip listbox.


Advanced Clip Features

The Clip System Menu contains the following choices:

Copy Clipboard to Listbox: Choose this to append the current Clipboard contents as the new last listbox entry. You may want to do this to capture the Clipboard contents when you first run Clip (we suggest adding Clip to your Program Manager startup list so that it will always be running when you need it).

Delete Selected Entry: This choice deletes the currently-selected Clip entry. This will free up the space taken by the entry in the Clip data file CLIP.DAT, located in the same directory as CLIP.EXE.

Options: This lets you change options. The options are maximum entries in list, maximum KB per entry in list, and maximum KB per file (1 KB = 1024 bytes). Set these options as you wish to limit the size of the list and CLIP.DAT. The default is to limit the size of the file to 1000 KB (1,024,000 bytes)

About Clip: Shows you Clip's version number and whether it is the freely-distributed Shareware version.

Help: Show this Help file.


How to Repair CLIP.DAT (def.)
How To Repair CLIP.DAT

The short integer at offset 4 in CLIP.DAT contains the number of entries in the file. To repair the file, decrement this count by one using debug or another file debugger, close Clip, then rerun Clip. This works because when Clip starts, it truncates CLIP.DAT after the last known entry.


Problems With Clip
What To Do If You Have Problems With Clip

Note: EOF Error: If the last entry in the Clip data file CLIP.DAT is only partially written (through hardware or software error), Clip will complain that it cannot read past the EOF (End Of File). In this case, dismiss the error message, delete CLIP.DAT, and rerun CLIP.EXE. Click here if you are an advanced programmer, to find out how to repair CLIP.DAT.

If, after reading this Help file and the documentation that came with Clip, you have a problem that you cannot figure out, please call Springtime Software Technical Support at (617) 894-9455, or write us at the address given under Suggestions.

Be sure to give us Clip's Version Number from the About dialog box.


Do You Have Suggestions?

We are very interested in your suggestions for improving our products.  If we use your suggestion we will mail you a new copy of the product as soon as we revise it.  If we don't use your suggestion we will tell you why.  Thanks in advance!

Please mail your suggestions to:

Springtime Software

81 Amherst Ave

Waltham, MA 02154-3167

U.S.A.