A remote control facilitates the visual indication of the position of an instrument on a touchpad by an external display device. Preferably, the apparatus further comprises an analyzer for analyzing the dumped information, and generating a new dump triggering event or a new partitioning scheme based on the analysis results. A contact portion 12 is formed at the distal end of the pressing body 9. If there is not error, the program or data is permitted to executeuse in client side.