<OT> Windows question

[Michael Hipp]

The Win2k Resource Kit has something called clip.exe:
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clip.exe: Clip To Clipboard

This command-line tool copies text from the STDIN stream to the Clipboard. 
You can then paste the data directly into any application that can receive 
text from the Clipboard.

To use Clip
Run any program that prints text to STDOUT and pipe the results through 
Clip. Clip reads from STDIN and copies the text to the Clipboard. Then, 
using the Paste command, copy the text to any application that can receive 
text from the Clipboard.

For syntax details, at the command prompt, type:
clip /? or clip -?

Example One
dir | clip
copies a folder listing onto the Clipboard. Next, run WordPad (or a similar 
text editor) and choose Edit, then Paste from the menu bar to paste the 
folder listing into WordPad.

Example Two
clip < readme.txt
places a copy of the contents of Readme.txt onto the Clipboard.

Example Three
awk -f gencode.awk input.txt | clip
places the output of the program Gencode.awk onto the Clipboard.

File Required

Clip.exe
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You might poke around to see if it can be downloaded somewhere (Google). Or 
a search of ZDnet might turn up a freeware/shareware alternative.

Michael


On Saturday 29 June 2002 08:18 am, Joel Hammer wrote:
> It would be better if the script automatically sent the output to the
> clipboard. The output is going to be rather lengthy, about 20 to 40 lines
> of text. And, the users are going to be secretaries, some of  whom are
> very ill educated about computer use.