mini.net is a good site to have bookmarked. The cetus page has lots of good stuff.
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:20:32 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think I want to get this involved for this little project. > > What I was doing was generating some canned reports. I just numbered every > line in the canned report master copy, and used ssed (works quite well in > windows) to pull out the required lines. ssed also formats them. Then, the > trick was to get them into the application as effortlessly as possible. This > all works from a command line in an msdos window, which really is much > better than a GUI. > > So, what I have done is just piped the output into notepad, and the poor > end user will have to select and copy. I was very surprised that notepad > could be run from a msdos window, but, that just shows what I know about > windows. > > Hmmm.. Now, if I could just do that with word and have a macro which > automatically selects, copies, and exits...... > > Oh well, compared to most of the junky software they give us, this is > fine. > > Thanks for the information. > > Joel > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 08:46:18PM -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote: > > See if this link helps. You might also want to look at the windows wish console. > > > > http://mini.net/tcl/1008 > > > > On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:46:10 -0400 > > Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I don't think can help me. I am using 98. I wasted some time on the > > > Microsoft web site, but aside from a reference to it, I couldn't find this > > > resource kit, at least for 98. > > > > > > I don't want to download anything off the net from some odd site or other as > > > this is a work computer and they wouldn't like that. Either would I. > > > > > > Joel > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 06:01:04PM -0500, Michael Hipp wrote: > > > > The Win2k Resource Kit has something called clip.exe: > > > > ---------- > > > > clip.exe: Clip To Clipboard > > > > > > > > This command-line tool copies text from the STDIN stream to the Clipboard. > > > > You can then paste the data directly into any application that can receive > > > > text from the Clipboard. > > > > > > > > To use Clip > > > > Run any program that prints text to STDOUT and pipe the results through > > > > Clip. Clip reads from STDIN and copies the text to the Clipboard. Then, > > > > using the Paste command, copy the text to any application that can receive > > > > text from the Clipboard. > > > > > > > > For syntax details, at the command prompt, type: > > > > clip /? or clip -? > > > > > > > > Example One > > > > dir | clip > > > > copies a folder listing onto the Clipboard. Next, run WordPad (or a similar > > > > text editor) and choose Edit, then Paste from the menu bar to paste the > > > > folder listing into WordPad. > > > > > > > > Example Two > > > > clip < readme.txt > > > > places a copy of the contents of Readme.txt onto the Clipboard. > > > > > > > > Example Three > > > > awk -f gencode.awk input.txt | clip > > > > places the output of the program Gencode.awk onto the Clipboard. > > > > > > > > File Required > > > > > > > > Clip.exe > > > > ---------------------- > > > > You might poke around to see if it can be downloaded somewhere (Google). Or > > > > a search of ZDnet might turn up a freeware/shareware alternative. > > > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > > On Saturday 29 June 2002 08:18 am, Joel Hammer wrote: > > > > > It would be better if the script automatically sent the output to the > > > > > clipboard. The output is going to be rather lengthy, about 20 to 40 lines > > > > > of text. And, the users are going to be secretaries, some of whom are > > > > > very ill educated about computer use. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
