Re: Implementing or Emulating TSRs in Win32 Console Apps

2006-03-21 Thread pDale
On 3/17/06, Chris Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 11:09 PM 3/17/2006 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Veli-Pekka_T=E4til=E4?= wrote:>It's no big deal really but I wonder why you use the marginally shorter>forms u and ur in stead of you and your. U renders quite well with a speech >synth here, but ur is p

Re: Implementing or Emulating TSRs in Win32 Console Apps

2006-03-17 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:09 PM 3/17/2006 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Veli-Pekka_T=E4til=E4?= wrote: >It's no big deal really but I wonder why you use the marginally shorter >forms u and ur in stead of you and your. U renders quite well with a speech >synth here, but ur is pretty much indistinguishable from err, . :) I g

Re: Implementing or Emulating TSRs in Win32 Console Apps

2006-03-17 Thread Veli-Pekka Tätilä
Hi Chris, and sorry for the delay. Chris Wagner wrote: U can do this by implementing ur own deceptively simple perl shell. U can set ur own single key commands, pass other commands off to cmd.exe Hey that's a great idea. I think this is the most straight forward solution particularly as I'm n

Re: Implementing or Emulating TSRs in Win32 Console Apps

2006-03-16 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
I would think you could do a lot of this using PerlTray (part of Activestate PDK). You can bind a hotkey to a callback and handle the sort of thing you want to do. I interpret Veli's requirement as some kind of a keyboard logger. PerlTray can probably register 1 or two (can it be more than 1?

Re: Implementing or Emulating TSRs in Win32 Console Apps

2006-03-16 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to do a DOS TSR-program in Perl? In this context I mean an > app which runs as long as you've got a DOS session open but which can lurk > in the background, accepting commands or processing hotkeys. TSRs were sort > of magical in the DOS days as i

RE: Implementing or Emulating TSRs in Win32 Console Apps

2006-03-16 Thread John Serink
tiveState.com > Subject: Implementing or Emulating TSRs in Win32 Console Apps > > > Hi, > Is it possible to do a DOS TSR-program in Perl? In this > context I mean an > app which runs as long as you've got a DOS session open but > which can lurk > in the background, acce

Re: Implementing or Emulating TSRs in Win32 Console Apps

2006-03-16 Thread Chris Wagner
U can do this by implementing ur own deceptively simple perl shell. U can set ur own single key commands, pass other commands off to cmd.exe or other programs, anything u can think of. I think there is an official perl shell out there that u could also modify. print "Enter command: ";

Implementing or Emulating TSRs in Win32 Console Apps

2006-03-16 Thread Veli-Pekka Tätilä
Hi, Is it possible to do a DOS TSR-program in Perl? In this context I mean an app which runs as long as you've got a DOS session open but which can lurk in the background, accepting commands or processing hotkeys. TSRs were sort of magical in the DOS days as it was a single-tasking OS and I rec