Re^2: How to sync a UNC path to a USB memory stick in Windows?

"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) ...."

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Re^3: How to sync a UNC path to a USB memory stick in Windows? by roboticus (Chancellor) on May 31, 2006 at 16:05 UTC
What version of Windows are you using? I'm on Windows XP Professional 2002, and I can't select text with the mouse until I do the Edit->Mark. Ah, well, chalk it up to another inconsistency between versions of Windows. (And to think that people complain about minor variations of various versions of *nix...) --roboticus	[reply]
Re^4: How to sync a UNC path to a USB memory stick in Windows? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 31, 2006 at 16:26 UTC
Thats because you have not enabled "quick edit mode". Click the system menu on a console window(top left), then Properties->Options->QuickEditMode. Then you'll be able to drag mark using the left button, copy with the right (when marked), and paste with the right button (when there is something in the paste buffer). When you click OK, you'll be offered the choice to enable it for just this window, or for all console windows. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply]
Re^5: How to sync a UNC path to a USB memory stick in Windows? by roboticus (Chancellor) on May 31, 2006 at 20:43 UTC
BrowserUk: ++! Thank you very much. That does the trick for me. You're saving my hands a good bit of work. --roboticus	[reply]