I'm hoping there is a utility which I can leave running in the background
that will enable me to use right-click cut/paste options in a DOS Window
without having to use the cumberson menu method (Menu/Edit/Mark/Enter for
Copy, Menu/Edit/Paste - Why no shortcut keys?)

Anyone? Help appreciated


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In article <Xns96A38B2794B3Efilthymcnastybtconne@213.123.26.234>,
filthy-mcnasty says...
> I'm hoping there is a utility which I can leave running in the background
> that will enable me to use right-click cut/paste options in a DOS Window
> without having to use the cumberson menu method (Menu/Edit/Mark/Enter for
> Copy, Menu/Edit/Paste - Why no shortcut keys?)
>
> Anyone? Help appreciated
>
>
on w2k:
copy:
select with mouse
right-click on selection with mouse

paste:
right-click with mouse

or left click if you are left-handed

xp is different

To copy and paste text between DOS CMD windows and other Windows
2000/XP programs, you can use the right-mouse button to perform the
actions.

To copy text, highlight the desired text in a Windows 2000/XP CMD
window and press the right mouse button. This should immediately copy
the text to the clipboard without prompting you for anything. If,
instead, you see an Edit menu, you can select the "Copy" command to
place the selected text in the clipboard. Or, bypass this menu for now
on via this tip:

Open up a DOS CMD prompt, click on the "C:\" icon on the top-left of
the window and choose "Properties". On the multi-tabbed dialog box that
follows, select the "Options" tab. Near "Edit Options", uncheck "Insert
Mode." Click the "OK" button to close the dialog box.

Now, when you highlight text with your mouse and press the right mouse
button, Windows will place the text on the clipboard without prompting.
Click the right mouse button without selecting text and Windows will
paste the clipboard text on the DOS prompt.

"filthy-mcnasty" <filthy-(E-Mail Removed)> a écrit dans le message de news:
Xns96A38B2794B3Efilthymcnastybtconne@213.123.26.234...
> I'm hoping there is a utility which I can leave running in the background
> that will enable me to use right-click cut/paste options in a DOS Window
> without having to use the cumberson menu method (Menu/Edit/Mark/Enter for
> Copy, Menu/Edit/Paste - Why no shortcut keys?)
>
> Anyone? Help appreciated
>
>
I don't have the answer, but i'm thinking about this
program which could capture every thing from a Dos windows,
i forgot the name ! any one remeber it ?

laurent

Using at least one appendage, the entity known in this space-time
continuum as (E-Mail Removed) revealed in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> Open up a DOS CMD prompt, click on the "C:\" icon on the top-left of
> the window and choose "Properties". On the multi-tabbed dialog box
> that follows, select the "Options" tab. Near "Edit Options", uncheck
> "Insert Mode." Click the "OK" button to close the dialog box.
>
> Now, when you highlight text with your mouse and press the right mouse
> button, Windows will place the text on the clipboard without
> prompting. Click the right mouse button without selecting text and
> Windows will paste the clipboard text on the DOS prompt.
>

For bloody years I have failed to grasp this. The lack of a right-click
dialog(ue) had me thinking I was doing something wrong

You have spelt it out in idiot-proof terms. There must be other folk out
there who now understand what the 1-line ? help in the Properties box so
thrillingly fails to make crystal clear

Thankyou from a newly-enlightened idiot

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My XP, (pro, sp2) works the same as you describe for 2k. Except I can't
get a left click to paste

> "Laurent Herve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I don't have the answer, but i'm thinking about this
>program which could capture every thing from a Dos windows,
>i forgot the name ! any one remeber it ?

The DOS redirection operators?

Any DOS command can be redirected to a text file:


C:\> dir D: /s > dirD.txt

C:\> dir D: /s >> dirD.txt

The first deletes "dirD.txt" if it exists and writes a new file. >

The second appends to "dirD.txt" if it exists, or creates a new file
if it does not exist. >>







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"REM" <(E-Mail Removed)> a écrit dans le message de news:
(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > "Laurent Herve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I don't have the answer, but i'm thinking about this
> >program which could capture every thing from a Dos windows,
> >i forgot the name ! any one remeber it ?
>
> The DOS redirection operators?
>
> Any DOS command can be redirected to a text file:
>
>
> C:\> dir D: /s > dirD.txt
>
> C:\> dir D: /s >> dirD.txt
>
> The first deletes "dirD.txt" if it exists and writes a new file. >
>
> The second appends to "dirD.txt" if it exists, or creates a new file
> if it does not exist. >>


Yes, but ... ok, it is not much usefull, but once i had troubles to
read the very long help page of cdrecord, which is written to
stdout (and that means that you cannot pipe it out). So, of course
one can read everything on there site, never mind, later, i
found an "editor" (yes, it was a small tool with features i can't remember)
which was able to capture every thing inside a Dos windows,
but it is still lost on my PC

laurent

Have you seen DOSclip and Textcap on

http://home.att.net/~short.stop/freesoft/screen.htm

Also, UltraEdit 32 will execute a DOS command and capture its result,
for you to edit or save.

<(E-Mail Removed)> a écrit dans le message de news:
(E-Mail Removed)...
> Have you seen DOSclip and Textcap on
>
> http://home.att.net/~short.stop/freesoft/screen.htm
>
> Also, UltraEdit 32 will execute a DOS command and capture its result,
> for you to edit or save.
>
ok it's a great site, but the application i search has a somewhat green
icon with a drawing of opticals maybe. it's no more there....

laurent