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You came to the right place. I live in the Windows XP command shell. My (DOS) roots must be showing.
Anyway, the icons may be gone, but the functionality is most certainly still there.
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I don't believe that there's a way to actually get the icon back, though it wouldn't surprise me if there were a third party add-on that could add something like it.
But Copy, Paste and a few other old friends are all still there on the system menu. Click on the upper left icon on the command shell window, referred to as the system menu, and along with Move, Size, and so on, you'll see a sub menu called Edit. Click on that, and you'll find Copy, Paste and other clipboard related commands. Here's a screen shot of what I mean:
If you're so inclined, there are good things buried in the Properties item as well that will let you control the look, feel and some of the behavior of the Command Shell.
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I believe if you type ALT+Space you'll get the system menu, which will allow you to select the entire screen and copy it. (It may take you out of the full screen window.)
Posted by: Leo at December 18, 2005 7:23 PMJust in case it's useful to anyone: I've found a neat program called Tamedos which among other things gives you the option to use ctrl-c and ctrl-v to cut and paste in a Dos window under XP, as well as smoothing out various other aspects. 30 days evaluation. Registration is $20 -- worth it to me. http://tamedos.com
Posted by: hagsrus at February 5, 2006 2:16 PMMany thanks. I had to paste a 4-line long command into the shell!
Posted by: Nadir Mrabet at June 17, 2008 8:15 AMIs there a way to use the keyboard instead?
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Just use the keyboard shortcuts for the system menu:
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Does the paste.
Leo
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how can i enable my cut,copy and paste command?
Posted by: ketab bhardwaj at September 12, 2008 7:00 AM