"right-click the title bar of the DOS app, and select Edit->Mark, then use the mouse to highlight text and press the Enter key.

Save some steps:
Once the DOS window has focus, there's no need to select edit. Just use the mouse to highlight the text to copy to the clipboard and hit enter when the highlighting is complete. NB: you can take a set of columns, but to capture continuous text, you'll need to be careful to highlight the full (virutal) width of the DOS screen... and when chars/line > 256, you'll have to replace the lineendings in the copy you "paste with ^V in *real* applications...."

That begs another question -- nay, "a mystery" to me: why did M$ bother with the "mark" option at all?

Update Re Roboticus' below: I'm stuck (this week) with w2k... and somewhat surprised by the question, since above ( in [id://#552678] ) you remarked "What works for me (Windows 2000 Professional) ...."

In reply to Re^2: How to sync a UNC path to a USB memory stick in Windows? by ww
in thread How to sync a UNC path to a USB memory stick in Windows? by OfficeLinebacker

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