anyway to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?

how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?
thx

On 26 Sep 2010, "GG" <> wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?

It's already allowed.

"GG" <> wrote in message news:N9Ano.1010$u9.220@edtnps82...
> how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?
> thx
>


The 'Edit' option from the window's icon top left gives you Mark, Copy,
Paste etc. but I don't know about actual drag & drop.

Tom

article <N9Ano.1010$u9.220@edtnps82>, says...
>
> how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?
> thx

No direct drag and drop, but you can use the 'paste' option from the
option menu on the top-left of the window after copying some text. I
don't think you can transfer graphics or anything fance, just plain
text.

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On 26 Sep 2010, Andrew Rossmann <andysnewsreply@no_junk.comcast.net>
wrote in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> No direct drag and drop, but you can use the 'paste' option from the
> option menu on the top-left of the window after copying some text. I
> don't think you can transfer graphics or anything fance, just plain
> text.

Dropping a graphic on a command window prompt is an inappropriate
concept. What would you expect to happen?

I said earlier that it WAS allowed. On my XP system, I can drop a file
on a command prompt, and the file name appears there. That could be
useful if you wanted to perform an operation on that file. However, I
find now that that doesn't work on my Vista system, and I presume it
wouldn't work on my Win7 system, either. I wonder why Microsoft changed
that?

click on top-left corner on menu, dropdown menu will appear with such
options as:
Edit, copy, paste, etc.

it may take you 30 minutes to learn if you never dealt with Command prompt
before, it's "old school" and new Windows users often get confused.
Before you copy/poaste you may need to learn actions to make it work, rather
than simple clicking as in Windows.

BECAUSE YOU DONT USE COMMAND PROMPT IN VISTA/WIN7, WHAT YOU SHOULD USE IS
"POWERSHELL" WHICH COMES FREE WITH VISTA/WIN7!

BECAUSE YOU DONT USE COMMAND PROMPT IN VISTA/WIN7, WHAT YOU SHOULD USE IS
"POWERSHELL" WHICH COMES FREE WITH VISTA/WIN7!

On 27 Sep 2010, "Fred Manitoba" <> wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> BECAUSE YOU DONT USE COMMAND PROMPT IN VISTA/WIN7, WHAT YOU SHOULD
> USE IS "POWERSHELL" WHICH COMES FREE WITH VISTA/WIN7!

That's no solution. You can't drag and drop onto a Powershell window in
Vista any more than you can a regular command prompt.

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:36:50 -0400, Nil wrote:

> On 26 Sep 2010, Andrew Rossmann <andysnewsreply@no_junk.comcast.net>
> wrote in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:
>
>> No direct drag and drop, but you can use the 'paste' option from the
>> option menu on the top-left of the window after copying some text. I
>> don't think you can transfer graphics or anything fance, just plain
>> text.
>
> Dropping a graphic on a command window prompt is an inappropriate
> concept. What would you expect to happen?
>
> I said earlier that it WAS allowed. On my XP system, I can drop a file
> on a command prompt, and the file name appears there. That could be
> useful if you wanted to perform an operation on that file. However, I
> find now that that doesn't work on my Vista system, and I presume it
> wouldn't work on my Win7 system, either. I wonder why Microsoft changed
> that?

I didn't believe you, so I just dragged a file name from a Windows
Explorer pane to a command window, and it appeared, surrounded by
quotes. Now I believe you :-)

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium.

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