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cut & paste from Word to DOS ?

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by hpoppe

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Is it possible with Windows (98,ME,2000) to mark text from a texstfile or Word or an Internetpage, copy or cut, and then paste it into an MS-DOS prompt window?
My Linux (Mandrake 7.2) can, and it is so convenient to paste, say an IP adress into theDOS window, for example to use ping.
Anyone know how to do this?

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by jeng

Once you've mark your text in the Windows application, click in the left/top button of your DOS box, Edit and Paste (via keyboard command, I use Alt-Space | (E)dit | (P)aste).

by bowieb

No problem. Just copy the text from your Windows program and then use the paste icon in your DOS window to copy it to the command line.

I don't know of any cut and paste shortcut keys that you can use in the DOS box, but there are icons for select, copy, and paste in the icon bar at the top of the DOS window.

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