how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?
thx

On 26 Sep 2010, "GG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?

It's already allowed.

On Sep 26, 12:41*am, "GG" <G...@NoMail.net> wrote:
> how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?
> thx

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You're kidding... aren't you? Back in the good old days of dos, there
was no such thing as drag and drop, was there? What in the world would
you be trying to drag to the dos prompt window anyway. And from where?
BTW, where'd you find the dos prompt window in Vista?

Bill

"GG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:N9Ano.1010$u9.220@edtnps82...
> how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?
> thx
>


The 'Edit' option from the window's icon top left gives you Mark, Copy,
Paste etc. but I don't know about actual drag & drop.

Tom

article <N9Ano.1010$u9.220@edtnps82>, (E-Mail Removed) says...
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> how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?
> thx

No direct drag and drop, but you can use the 'paste' option from the
option menu on the top-left of the window after copying some text. I
don't think you can transfer graphics or anything fance, just plain
text.

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On 26 Sep 2010, Andrew Rossmann <andysnewsreply@no_junk.comcast.net>
wrote in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> No direct drag and drop, but you can use the 'paste' option from the
> option menu on the top-left of the window after copying some text. I
> don't think you can transfer graphics or anything fance, just plain
> text.

Dropping a graphic on a command window prompt is an inappropriate
concept. What would you expect to happen?

I said earlier that it WAS allowed. On my XP system, I can drop a file
on a command prompt, and the file name appears there. That could be
useful if you wanted to perform an operation on that file. However, I
find now that that doesn't work on my Vista system, and I presume it
wouldn't work on my Win7 system, either. I wonder why Microsoft changed
that?

click on top-left corner on menu, dropdown menu will appear with such
options as:
Edit, copy, paste, etc.

it may take you 30 minutes to learn if you never dealt with Command prompt
before, it's "old school" and new Windows users often get confused.
Before you copy/poaste you may need to learn actions to make it work, rather
than simple clicking as in Windows.

BECAUSE YOU DONT USE COMMAND PROMPT IN VISTA/WIN7, WHAT YOU SHOULD USE IS
"POWERSHELL" WHICH COMES FREE WITH VISTA/WIN7!

BECAUSE YOU DONT USE COMMAND PROMPT IN VISTA/WIN7, WHAT YOU SHOULD USE IS
"POWERSHELL" WHICH COMES FREE WITH VISTA/WIN7!

On 27 Sep 2010, "Fred Manitoba" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> BECAUSE YOU DONT USE COMMAND PROMPT IN VISTA/WIN7, WHAT YOU SHOULD
> USE IS "POWERSHELL" WHICH COMES FREE WITH VISTA/WIN7!

That's no solution. You can't drag and drop onto a Powershell window in
Vista any more than you can a regular command prompt.