Steps

Repeat the steps from lab session 3.

Start a Windows session.

Check the content of the Windows clipboard view utility.

Check the content of the PM clipboard view utility.

Issue the following commands:

  COPY C:\ITSCLABS\PBR*.* C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2
  COPY C:\ITSCLABS\WING*.* C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2

Start these two programs.

You can also install the same program directly under the Workplace Shell.

Try to start them as SAVDM, versus MAVDM, and check out the differences.

10.

Try to modify the pasted data and copy it back into the clipboard. 11.

Try to do the same with metafiles. 12.

Try to do the same with text files. 13.

Try to pass data from Windows to PM. 14.

Start a second Windows Session and repeat the same steps. 15.

Switch off the "public clipboards" and check if you can transfer data. 16.

Check out the "import" and "export" features of the clipboard viewers. 17.

Also check out the system editor, the picture view utility and some other programs, installed in your productivity folder.