[reposted as it didn't seem to make it into the newsgroup, or at least into
the digest.]

My mouse was getting fat from lack of exercise, so I have put together a
package that allows an area of text to be selected from any VC and
subsequently pasted to any VC. The package requires a Microsoft-compatible (I
think) *serial* mouse. I find it pretty useful; I've become dependent on
cut'n'paste under X, and missed it under Linux.

The package is in two parts; kernel patches (against standard 0.95a) to
tty_ioctl.c and console.c to implement the selection mechanism, and some
application code to implement the mouse driver and user interface.

I can't upload stuff to FTP sites, but will willingly post the package to
anybody who would like to try it out. selection.tar.Z.uue is about 10K.
If I get enough requests, I'll post it to this group instead, or someone could
upload it for me.

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