> Not quite. There seems to be at least one extra step. With XP, you have
to
> call up a menu and select 'mark' before selecting. I can't recall at the
> moment whether you have to do menu selctions to paste at the insertion
point.
> In 2K, you can select text by dragging. If there is text selected, a
> right-click copies to the clipboard. If no text is selected, a
right-click
> pastes at the insertion point. It makes for a pretty smooth flow. The
flow in
> XP is much more choppy.
Hello RJN,

I think you didn't enable "quick edit mode" in the command prompt's
properties. I use exactly the sequence you describe (select with mouse,
right-click to copy to clipboard, right-click with nothing selected to
paste) in XP. You just have to tell the command prompt to behave that way.

That option has always been there (even in the Win95 command.com window, and
WinNT 4 which I use here at work), but I believe in some versions of Windows
it was enabled by default, and in some others it wasn't, which might be the
cause of your confusion...

Hope that helps to make your work smoother. :-)

J-S