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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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July 25, 2010 2:39 AM
Thanks a Billion! I am very experienced, but self-taught; and I was stuck with a "file"/non-file thing on my XP x64 Desktop for a few months. Finally I thought to search the error message (duh!, but guess I was lazy at first and my desktop was messier then anyway).
Well, I am posting this for thanks and two other reasons - for all reading with
this kind of issue:
1 - for me the file ended with a space; and not a period; and thought I would spread the word this still worked!
2 - Also, I read above some had problems with copy and paste. I too had to
re-learn how to do this, but you should be able to do it simply with the Windows prompts (well, at least mine, see version above). I use the portable one from portableapps.com, and also discovered it to be tricky. It seemed to keep "forgetting" or something, what I had copied into the clipboard (which was the entire command written in a text editor to include everything (of course)). I had to carefully left click the very top left of the prompt window to bring up the context menu which included Edit->Paste. Maybe mine was acting up for some other reason, but I think this may help others; keep trying.
So happy that "file" is gone!
July 25, 2010 2:46 AM
Sorry, I posted this to the wrong site accidentally. I used this info in conjunction with the info here: http://blog.dotsmart.net/2008/06/12/solved-cannot-read-from-the-source-file-or-disk/
Sorry for the possible confusion...
September 8, 2010 6:19 AM
re. CMD window cut and paste.
Try under CMD window menu "Properties" --> "Options" Tab and and enable "Quick Edit Mode".
This gives you Paste on mouse Right-Button and Copy is by mouse drag and Return.
November 6, 2012 9:38 PM
The resizing gimmic is fantastic. I cottoned on to it just like that. Thanks Leo.
January 6, 2013 11:29 AM
how to copy one file & past it to
another plase in cmd ?
06-Jan-2013