Copy & Paste in a Dos box

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Mensanator wrote:
> On May 6, 3:46 pm, Dave Angel <da... at ieee.org> wrote:
>> Mensanator wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> And when prompted, do "(.) modify shortcut that started this window"
>>> After which, you can dispense with the menus (except when pasting),
>>> just select the text and hit <enter>.
>> To paste into a DOS box, once Quick Edit is enabled, use Right-Click.  
>> They keystrokes will be sent to the command editor.  Note that the
>> interpretation is rather literal, so be careful if copy/pasting more
>> than one line, or a line that was wrapped.
> 
> Well I'll be dipped. Didn't know you could do that.
> 
> Of course, since I learned how to call programs from the
> script and capture their StdOut, I don't have much call for
> cut/paste from dos windows. Hopefully, I'll remember that the
> next time I need it.
> 
That's new to me too!

You probably already know that if you drag-and-drop a file onto the
window you get its path.