copying and pasting in the terminal window?

[mwoehlke]

Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>>>>>> "John" == John Salerno <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> writes:
> 
>     John> Hi everyone.  I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm
>     John> wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command
>     John> prompt, like in Linux?  
> 
> Sure.  But it's a feature of cmd.exe, not of Cygwin.  In other words,
> you can do what I'm about to describe on _any_ Windows box.

Um... that would be "feature of the CUI subsystem". It has no more to do 
with cmd.exe than it has to do with bash; both cmd.exe and bash are 
shells; the CUI is the terminal (emulator).

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Matthew
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