Enabling Copy and Paste from a Windows 9x Console Window:

I don't have access to these platforms, but it has been reported
to me that the technique described below for Windows NT won't work
on Windows 9x (I haven't heard anything about Windows 2k).

From time to time students will send me suggestions. Here are a few:

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A simple solution is to just bypass the ugly DOS (DOG) shell and run
the  executable in something like an NT/95/98 emacs command shell,
worked for me the first time w/out any problems.  Below is a nice link
that tells where it is available along with unpacking, installation
and usage information.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html

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Expand the window to full screen from the tool bar.
Hit the Print Screen key.
Close the window.
Open the WordPad Accessory.
Click on Paste from the Edit Menu.
Then print it.

(prof's note: Of course this only prints what we can see without scrolling)

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Enabling Copy and Paste from a Windows NT Console Window:

1. Access control panel from the shortcut menu:

   a. Right mouse click on title bar of console window to bring up a shortcut menu

   b. Select "Properties" from shortcut menu.

Alternate 1:

1. Access control panel from the Start/Settings menu:

   a. Select "Settings" from "Start" menu

   b. Select "Control Panels"

   c. Open "MS DOS Console" icon

2.  Check "Quick Edit Mode" box under "Options" tab

3.  Set "Buffer Size" to at least 70 under "Options Tab"

4.  Set "Screen Buffer Size" width to 80 and height to 45 under "Layout" tab

5.  Set "Window Size" width to 80 and height to 45 under "Layout" tab

Warning:

If you used the the alternate 1, then these changes only apply to new console windows.

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Copy and Paste from a Console Window:

1. Select text to be copied using your mouse.

2. Right mouse click on title bar of console window to bring up a shortcut menu

3. Select Edit/Copy from shortcut menu, this copies selected text into the system's clipboard.

4. Paste clipboard contents into a Notepad, Word Pad, Word, or other document using
the local paste command.