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is a natural and transparent extension of copy & pasting for
developers over multiple PC’s sharing a LAN. Simply By Ctrl-Alt-Shift C
broadcasting copy event to all NetPaste aware PC's and Ctrl-Alt-Shift V
pasting from source PC |
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The Tao of Pasting
THE SHEWING-FORTH OF SIMPLICITY |
We, the PHD's of Copy&Paste have toiled for
many a
weeks to fully understand what is copying, what is pasting and how
should they incorporate into the next generation of network computing,
the simplicity of extending the copy, the paste beyond ones pc is
essential component in the unification of user interfacing and
multitasking
made easy.
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| Example - Scenario of use. |
1) We have two PCs, both are running apache
server,
and you want to copy some of the configuration parameters, just a few
lines from the httpd.conf to the other pc, by using NetPaste, you
simply
open the file within your editor and press Ctrl -Alt- Shift C, .
Netpaste
is a system hook app, which means is catches the special key
combination and gets the text from the clipboard. You don't have to do
any special right click this or that to activate it, just another key
combination for copy and paste.
2) You go (physically) or just move your head to the PC screen next to
your or hit the kb switch, to the Target PC, there you open the config
file and find the place where you want to Paste (usually the place of
the cursor), hit the Ctrl -Alt- Shift
V and a popup will show you the list of copy from
sources, if you work for example with only two PCs, you will see the PC
that you did the copy from. Click Ok and that's it!
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| How to Install NetPaste
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Download the
installer and run it, choose folder etc... after installation run
Netpaste either from the Start -> Programs -> Netpaste or
from where you installed it (Netpaste.exe).
Test that NetPaste is running by clicking Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Q or
notice the tray icon on the taskbar, if a popup for closing NetPaste
displays, it's running, click cancel and continue. You can place the
NetPaste.exe process in the startup menu, so that it will run when you
start your computer. The NetPaste is a small footprint process,
together with the dll it is about 140K so don't worry about any
overhead. You will need to install it per machine that you want to copy
from and paste to, and that’s about it. Uninstall by deleting these two
files.
Download
Beta 1.1 package |
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| The Copy Process |
Place your hands on the keyboard - there are two ways the one
hand formation and the two hands formation -
One hand formation -
This
technique uses the left finger (pinky) to press simultaneously on the
Shift and Ctrl, while the thumb presses the Alt and the forefinger
press the C. this is a highly complex technique and used by Advanced
users of NetPaste.
Two hands formation -
Phase A
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Phase B
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The more
friendly way, by using Left hand to press Alt, Ctrl, Shift, you
comfortably place your thumb on the table, you pinky is also loose,
then come the next hand... Then using
the right hand to point and click C
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| The Paste Process |
Paste from, Host list
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Pasting...
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After
clicking the Paste combination which is the same as the copy but with
the V
instead of the C, you will get this popup, and choosing the
source to copy from and clicking OK, the content will be pasted where
you have place the cursor of the application. thats it! (remember you
need the two machines to be up and running & connected on the same
LAN). Henceforth the resulted paste will show itself just as if it were
from your local PC!
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| How to Quit NetPaste |
Why a
sane person will want to activate
this
lamentable option, which sometime is but a necessity of nature itself
that afflict all software. just press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Q, where a
popup will show the well known question of do you really, really want
to close NetPaste? if the application from some reasons and due to the
betaness of this version persist in not giving way to this popup, then
by all means you will have to open the TaskManager or Ctrl-Alt-Delete
and find persistent process (netpaste.exe) and terminate it.
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updated:
03/06/05