<OT> Windows question

[ronnie gauthier]

See if this link helps. You might also want to look at the windows wish console.

http://mini.net/tcl/1008

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:46:10 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:

> I don't think can help me. I am using 98. I wasted some time on the
> Microsoft web site, but aside from a reference to it, I couldn't find this
> resource kit, at least for 98.
> 
> I don't want to download anything off the net from some odd site or other as
> this is a work computer and they wouldn't like that. Either would I.
> 
> Joel
> 
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 06:01:04PM -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > The Win2k Resource Kit has something called clip.exe:
> > ----------
> > 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
> > ----------------------
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
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