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COPYING TEXT FROM A DOS WINDOW
You can copy text from a DOS program running in
a window into a Windows application. For example, say you
have MS-DOS Edit running on a text file you're creating
or altering. You might want to copy part of this to a
WordPad document. Here is how you do it: first click on
the MS-DOS icon at the top left of your window. Down
comes a menu which includes the item "Edit".
You click on that, and then click on the item
"Mark" which pops up in a connected menu. Now
click at the beginning of the text you want to copy. Next
move to the end of the text you want to copy and click
again while holding down the Shift key. Now you have
"marked" the section you want to copy. So click
on the MS-DOS icon again, select "Copy". Go to
the window where WordPad is running (or start one up by
pressing <ctrl><esc> and maneuvering through
the Start menu until you get to WordPad in the
Accessories folder.) Click on the location where you want
to copy the text to, click on the Edit menu, and finally
click Paste.
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