anyway to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?

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how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?
thx
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You're kidding... aren't you? Back in the good old days of dos, there
was no such thing as drag and drop, was there? What in the world would
you be trying to drag to the dos prompt window anyway. And from where?
BTW, where'd you find the dos prompt window in Vista?

Bill
 
GG said:
how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?
thx
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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
 
how to allow drag and drop on DOS prompt window?
thx
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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.
 
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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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!
 
BECAUSE YOU DONT USE COMMAND PROMPT IN VISTA/WIN7, WHAT YOU SHOULD
USE IS "POWERSHELL" WHICH COMES FREE WITH VISTA/WIN7!
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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.
 
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?
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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.
 
Nil said:
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?
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just want tt drag and drop a file name over so I can do something with the
file in dos prompt instead of copy and paste path, then finame. like XP. it
is so much better that way

you know sometiem teh GUI interface for copying directory is a pain and
slow. sometimes I watn to control the options for copy, or just use
robocopy.
 
Dave-UK said:
And if you press Enter the file will be opened by its default program!
(At least it does on my Win7).
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yes Win 7 utlimate, home, pro all allow drag and dropt filename complete
with path into dos prompt. just the vista dos prompt seems to be regressive.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Manitoba said:
BECAUSE YOU DONT USE COMMAND PROMPT IN VISTA/WIN7, WHAT YOU SHOULD USE IS
"POWERSHELL" WHICH COMES FREE WITH VISTA/WIN7!
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that is no solution to OP. you must love powershell. Not everyone has that
installed, not even dotnet. Powershell requies dotnet framework if I am not
mistaken. for people not needing dotnet, installing power and dotnet even if
it allow drag and drop in vista is overkill and increase attack surface
area.

In otherword pc becomes more vlunerable. in Companies that also increases
support cost
 
And if you press Enter the file will be opened by its default program!
(At least it does on my Win7).
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That's cool.

Now I need to find a reason to do that :-)

But I still think it's cool...
 
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