coppying and pasting from the command prompt with jaws?

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by sparkie (the hilljack) on Saturday, 17-Jun-2006 21:02:25

Hey. Is there a way to coppy something such as a ping test or a trace route within a command prompt using jaws? For example, at work when I ping a customer, or run a trace to the customers computer I need to be able to coppy the full results from the command prompt and paste them into my notes. Is there even a way to coppy something from the command prompt? This is jaws6. Thanks.
Troy

Post 2 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Saturday, 17-Jun-2006 23:05:31

Actually, i believe there is. You can bring up the screen you need, press ctrl+insert (jaws key) + the letter w. This will put your screen in the virtual buffer where you can copy all or parts of it to the clipboard. Let me know if this helps.
bob

Post 3 by Wraith (Prince of Chaos) on Saturday, 17-Jun-2006 23:59:54

If you only need to copy one line of text, here's a simple script to do so from any window.

Post 4 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Sunday, 18-Jun-2006 16:35:36

Or you can do it another way which is screen reader independent.

For example:
ping zonebbs.com >> c:ping.txt

Would dump the ping results into a text file.
There might be some issues if you are doing your notes in word and you are using dos? to dump stuff into it.
BEN.

Post 5 by sparkie (the hilljack) on Sunday, 18-Jun-2006 21:20:21

Thanks, Will try those.
Troy