In the spirit of TMTOWTDI, you may also wish to look at Win32::Clipboard and kin. I have assembled Super Search results below.

• Tk Drag and Drop Between Applications
• Windows Clipboard
• print to clipboard
• Win32 Multiple Clipboards
• Clipboard transform keys
• One button text processing
• Win32::Clipboard from within a wxPerl
• save browser's result to image file
• Win32::Clipboard and Unicode
• Win32 screen capture
• How to capture screen under Win32?
• Me in a loop with Win32::Clipboard
• Copy & copy... Win32 clipboard utility
• Extending Win32::Clipboard (or using Win32::Event, etc.)
• newlines in Clipboard
• Clipboard to file
• Windows' clipboard
• Capture Screen Output on Windows into a File
• Re: capture what's on the screen
• capture what's on the screen
• Using Win32::GUI::DIBitmap for screen capture

There is also a very nice little utility called, predictably, "Clipboard" which allows you to capture output from a DOS command prompt and copy it to the Windows Clipboard. The article may be found here: Print From Any Console Application, by Bill Wagner (a free, AFAIK, registration is required). If you go to Visual Studio Magazine and type vsep030228cs into the "Locator+ Code" field, you should be able to download the C# source as a .zip file. Usage is as follows:

Prompt> dir | clipboard -c

..copies to the clipboard.

Prompt> dir | clipboard -p

.. Prints the output

Prompt> dir | clipboard -c -p

Copies to the clipboard, and prints it.

HTH,