This has already been discussed. It's impossible to make it crossplatform so the feature will most probably not be added.

gulikoza wrote:

This has already been discussed. It's impossible to make it crossplatform so the feature will most probably not be added.

Sorry, do you mean that "copy/paste" is a unique characteristic of Microsoft Windows,
and that it doesn't exist in other operating systems ?
-You know, I'm completely unaware of OS other than Windows-.

And I was thinking that this suggestion I made, was really easy to incorporate.

PS. I've also tried to find a relevant thread in the forum,
but, since there isn't an option to "search message title only",
couldn't find anything.

There is a wishlist thread here. I thought that copy/pasting was mentioned there but now I can't find it.
No, it's not a windows unique feature, but every OS does it differently. I believe that even linux has a few different ways of how to do it, so no it's not that easy to make it work everywhere.

You can "copy/paste" into the autoexec part of the dosbox.conf file to automatically mount your drives.

Well, thanks for your answers.

@gulikoza: so, would anyone mind if I posted my suggestion in the wish-list, too?

edit: I found this in the wish-list thread:

If a suggestion is already in this list or in therest of the thread then you do not need to chime in on how much you'd like this feature.

@collector: nice tip, thank you!! 😀

Capturing a text mode screen to a text file would probably be the nearest cross-platform solution.

In fact, there is a special tool to copy/paste in dos-mode for MS Win. 😎

http://copypaste.paqtool.com/

I tried it on WinXP - it does work. All you need to copy with it is mouse. 😀

huh? I copy and paste between NT4/2K/XP/2003 command prompt all the time without any special tools? Is this spam?

DosFreak wrote:

huh? I copy and paste between NT4/2K/XP/2003 command prompt all the time without any special tools? Is this spam?

Seems like it: "Only 14.95$!" for something that doesn't do much special. Besides, it doesn't work on DOSBox. It's just a keylogger (just checked it out).

But when required, I can code a free tool for Windows which reacts on another shortcut then Ctrl+V and just does a sendkey for every char in the clipboard. I think that should work?