Cut/Paste tool for DOSBox window?

[filthy-mcnasty]

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

 

[djek]

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

 

[mike.j.harvey]

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.

 

[Laurent Herve]

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

 

[filthy-mcnasty]

Using at least one appendage, the entity known in this space-time
continuum as (e-mail address removed) revealed in

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

--
Will Cornish of Cardigan, UK - No nastier than you; No filthier than
usual

To EMail Remove Anti-Spam Spaces: filthy-mcnasty @
btconnect.com

 

[mike.j.harvey]

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

 

[REM]

"Laurent Herve" <[email protected]> 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. >>

 

[Laurent Herve]

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

 

[mike.j.harvey]

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.

 

[Laurent Herve]

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

 

[filthy-mcnasty]

Using at least one appendage, the entity known in this space-time continuum
as (e-mail address removed) revealed in @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

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

Alternative download for DOSClip - Most download links were dead:

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/screen/doscli30.zip

 

[Howard Schwartz]

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 -

You have been told how to do it easier with a window. There is also
a small freeware utility that will do this for text, when you set your
dos window to be a full window in text mode, not a ``windows'' type
window with a small font:

Xpcmouse copies and pastes dos text from the command line or within any
application using the usual mouse keys. It will also save your selection
to the windows clipboard or to a file, if you press one of two
keyboard/mouse shortcuts. It was designed to mimic the cut/paste
functions in unix, X-windows. So it also allows you to capture entire
lines of text, or partial rectangles with partial text, depending on how
you draw the selection. There are also different capture modes depending
on the video software, application, etc.

It is a dos TSR, so you put it in your autoexec.bat file for win 9x or
similar for 2k and beyond. I believe there are a few other similar
dos mouse utilities.

 

[Howard Schwartz]

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,

The free dos program, wclip will capture the text of any file and put it in
the windows clipboard, or send the contents of the windows clipboard to
any file. It is a dos command line program.

 

[lisztfr]

Howard Schwartz a écrit :

The free dos program, wclip will capture the text of any file and put it in
the windows clipboard, or send the contents of the windows clipboard to
any file. It is a dos command line program.

Thank you but i have lost my program and never find it back.
It was a windows application with guy...can't rmember the name,
only the green-like icon.

Lh