Command Window

In my command window, I right click on the title bar and on the menu, "Copy
enter" and "Scroll" are grayed out. In properties there appears to be no way
to turn these things on. Does anyone know how? If I use an elevated command
window, there are scroll bars but "Copy enter" is grayed out there too.

Tyro

"Tyro" <> wrote in message
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> In my command window, I right click on the title bar and on the menu,
> "Copy enter" and "Scroll" are grayed out. In properties there appears to
> be no way to turn these things on. Does anyone know how? If I use an
> elevated command window, there are scroll bars but "Copy enter" is grayed
> out there too.
>
> Tyro

You can't copy anything until you mark it !? (isn't this obvious?)
What did you think the command did ?
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Mike Brannigan

I assumed the feature was turned off just like scroll is turned off.

Tyro

"Mike Brannigan" <Mike.Brannigan@localhost> wrote in message
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> "Tyro" <> wrote in message
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>> In my command window, I right click on the title bar and on the menu,
>> "Copy enter" and "Scroll" are grayed out. In properties there appears to
>> be no way to turn these things on. Does anyone know how? If I use an
>> elevated command window, there are scroll bars but "Copy enter" is grayed
>> out there too.
>>
>> Tyro
>
> You can't copy anything until you mark it !? (isn't this obvious?)
> What did you think the command did ?
> --
>
> Mike Brannigan

It put scroll bars on the command window.

"Alto" <> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:34:16 -0800, "Tyro" <> wrote:
>
>>I assumed the feature was turned off just like scroll is turned off.
>>
> For me scroll is sometimes active, sometimes greyed out.
>
> I have never noticed it before - what is its function (apart from
> scrolling :-) which it does not seem to do anyway!
>
> --
> Alto
> NSW Australia

On 1/30/09, author Tyro wrote:
> In my command window, I right click on the title bar and on the menu, "Copy
> enter" and "Scroll" are grayed out. In properties there appears to be no way
> to turn these things on. Does anyone know how? If I use an elevated command
> window, there are scroll bars but "Copy enter" is grayed out there too.

> Tyro

Copy should become highlighted once you've selected something in the
window. You have to choose "Mark" before you can select anything in
that window, however. Pretty weird...

Scroll should become highlighted when you overfill the window with
content. That is, when there's been enough activity to have caused
older data to scroll off the top of the window.

BTW, the command is "Copy", not "Copy Enter". Enter is shown to remind
you that it is the keyboard shortcut for Copy (that is true only in the
command window, AFAIK).

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

That is to say. If I bring up a command window, enter a command and it
produces 10,000 lines of output, I see only the last screen and I cannot
scroll to the first screen. In elevated mode, I can scroll through all
10,000 lines.

Tyro


"Gene E. Bloch" <> wrote in message
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> On 1/30/09, author Tyro wrote:
>> In my command window, I right click on the title bar and on the menu,
>> "Copy enter" and "Scroll" are grayed out. In properties there appears to
>> be no way to turn these things on. Does anyone know how? If I use an
>> elevated command window, there are scroll bars but "Copy enter" is grayed
>> out there too.
>
>> Tyro
>
> Copy should become highlighted once you've selected something in the
> window. You have to choose "Mark" before you can select anything in that
> window, however. Pretty weird...
>
> Scroll should become highlighted when you overfill the window with
> content. That is, when there's been enough activity to have caused older
> data to scroll off the top of the window.
>
> BTW, the command is "Copy", not "Copy Enter". Enter is shown to remind you
> that it is the keyboard shortcut for Copy (that is true only in the
> command window, AFAIK).
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
>
>

On 1/30/09, author Tyro wrote:
> Scroll is not available at all. No scroll bars appear unless the command
> window is elevated. Yes, I know all about copy. I've used Dos for over 24
> years.
> I just got carried away with what was grayed out.

From your posts, I see you as knowledgeable, so I was confused by the
"Copy Enter" thing. I should have just realized it was a slip. I guess
that was *my* getting carried away :-)

Have you overfilled a command window? Like trying dir inside C:\Windows
or typing a huge text file... If you do that & don't get scroll bars,
I'm mystified. I can even scroll with my mouse wheel.

OTOH, I've never clicked on scroll before reading your post, and much
to my (not) surprise, it looks like it doesn't do anything. Ever...

> Tyro

> "Gene E. Bloch" <> wrote in message
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>> On 1/30/09, author Tyro wrote:
>>> In my command window, I right click on the title bar and on the menu,
>>> "Copy enter" and "Scroll" are grayed out. In properties there appears to
>>> be no way to turn these things on. Does anyone know how? If I use an
>>> elevated command window, there are scroll bars but "Copy enter" is grayed
>>> out there too.
>>
>>> Tyro
>>
>> Copy should become highlighted once you've selected something in the
>> window. You have to choose "Mark" before you can select anything in that
>> window, however. Pretty weird...
>>
>> Scroll should become highlighted when you overfill the window with content.
>> That is, when there's been enough activity to have caused older data to
>> scroll off the top of the window.
>>
>> BTW, the command is "Copy", not "Copy Enter". Enter is shown to remind you
>> that it is the keyboard shortcut for Copy (that is true only in the command
>> window, AFAIK).
>>
>> -- Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
>>
>>

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

If you are logged on as an administrative user and invoke a command window
with cmd, you get scroll bars. If you are a standard user you do not get
scroll bars. I have two accounts, admin and standard. I almost always use my
standard account so I don't get scroll in a command window.

Tyro



"Tyro" <> wrote in message
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> In my command window, I right click on the title bar and on the menu,
> "Copy enter" and "Scroll" are grayed out. In properties there appears to
> be no way to turn these things on. Does anyone know how? If I use an
> elevated command window, there are scroll bars but "Copy enter" is grayed
> out there too.
>
> Tyro

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:49:21 +1100, Alto <> wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:34:16 -0800, "Tyro" <> wrote:
>
>>I assumed the feature was turned off just like scroll is turned off.
>>
>For me scroll is sometimes active, sometimes greyed out.
>
>I have never noticed it before - what is its function (apart from
>scrolling :-) which it does not seem to do anyway!


When I select "Scroll" from the edit menu my title bar changes from:-

Administrator: C:\Windows\Sytem32\cms.exe

to

ScrollAdministrator: C:\Windows\Sytem32\cms.exe

I can then use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the
display in the window instead of using the vertical scroll bar.

Commands cannot be entered at the prompt (key presses give a beep)
until "Enter" is pressed at which time the up and down arrows revert
to scrolling throught the command history.


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Stubbo of Oz
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On 1/30/09, author Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> OTOH, I've never clicked on scroll before reading your post, and much to my
> (not) surprise, it looks like it doesn't do anything. Ever...

I just read the post on this by Stubbo of Oz. All is now clear.

I discovered that the ways out of scroll mode seem to be pressing Esc
or ^C. Clicking on Scroll again doesn't do that.

BTW, right clicking on the inside of the cmd window brings up the edit
menu directly. I've always done it that way, and I only learned or
maybe relearned (or not) about the title bar from this thread.

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