Re: Windows copy append

["Burns, Bryan" <Bryan_Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gosh I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't added that feature.  I believe that the copy and paste functions are two of the most important features of Windows.  I thought I must have been overlooking something.

Thanks all.
 
Bryan Burns
iSeries Specialist
ECHO, Incorporated
Lake Zurich,  Illinois

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Jones
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:43 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Windows copy append

There appear to be 3rd party tools that provide a clipboard append.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That is not what Bryan meant - Copy Append is an extra option in the
> Edit menu of iSeries Access - as well as Paste Next. Copy Append takes
> what you are copying and appends it to the end of what is on the
> clipboard. Very cool for copying multi-screen stuff like source or help
> text or whatever. Paste Next is the reverse - it starts pasting from
> where you left off - nice for pasting long source.
>
> Of course, it's much easier in WDSC/RDi - where you don't deal with
> multi-screens - you can copy and paste the whole thing. There's probably
> not a reason for this feature in Windows apps other then the emulator.
>
> HTH
> Vern
>
> Bill wrote:
> > Burns, Bryan wrote:
> >
> > > Is there an action in Windows, let's say XP Pro,  which does that same
> thing as Copy Append does for iSeries Access for Windows?  It sure is handy.
> > >
> >
> > You can do it from the command line.  Start, Run, cmd.
> >
> > Copy filea + fileb filec
> >
> > Copies filea and adds fileb to create filec.  You can add as many files
> > with pluses as you wish.  You can also do:
> >
> > Copy fileb + filea fileb
> >
> > Bill