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Tired of doing a print screen or a mark->copy on a DOS command box?

Tired of doing a print screen or a mark->copy on a DOS command box? Here's a better way   To copy the contents of your screen to a text editor like notepad, you can perform the following command instead of copying the text one screen at a time: C:\> <dos_command> | clip   For example,   If you want to see all contents of the Program Files folder in your drive C: 1.             Select the Windows Start button, select Run and type "CMD" to launch a DOS session. 2.             Type C:\>dir "Program Files" | clip 3.             Open a text editor and press [Ctrl]V to paste the contents.   The clip command will copy the output results of the <dos_command> to your Windows clipboard. Once you are in your text editor, do a normal paste like any Windows appli...