<OT> Windows question

[ronnie gauthier]

mini.net is a good site to have bookmarked. The cetus page has lots of good stuff.


On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:20:32 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:

> I don't think I want to get this involved for this little project.
> 
> What I was doing was generating some canned reports. I just numbered every
> line in the canned report master copy, and used ssed (works quite well in
> windows) to pull out the required lines. ssed also formats them. Then, the
> trick was to get them into the application as effortlessly as possible. This
> all works from a command line in an msdos window, which really is much
> better than a GUI.
> 
> So, what I have done is just piped the output into notepad, and the poor
> end user will have to select and copy.  I was very surprised that notepad
> could be run from a msdos window, but, that just shows what I know about
> windows.
> 
> Hmmm.. Now, if I could just do that with word and have a macro which
> automatically selects, copies, and exits......
> 
> Oh well, compared to most of the junky software they give us, this is
> fine.
> 
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> Joel
> 
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 08:46:18PM -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote:
> > 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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