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CLIP2TXT: Copy the Windows Clipboard contents to a File

What is CLIP2TXT
Installing CLIP2TXT
Using CLIP2TXT
Known Issues and Limitations
Support
Source Code availability

What is CLIP2TXT?

CLIP2TXT is a FREEWARE command line utility for Windows 9x/NT batch files. CLIP2TXT will copy the contents of the Windows Clipboard to the screen or to a file.

James Greene Informatics Consulting also provides TEXT2CLP, a command line utility to copy the contents of a file to the Windows clipboard.

Installing CLIP2TXT

CLIP2TXT is a single Win32 character-mode executable. It does not require any additional .DLLs or other files, but will only run in a Windows 9x or Windows NT "DOS-Box".

To install CLIP2TXT:

Download the CLIP2TXT.ZIP file from

CLIP2TXT Download (Basel, Switzerland)
CLIP2TXT Download (Berlin, Germany) v1.0
21. Jan. 1999 69 Kb Freeware
US$ 0.00
Use PKUNZIP, WinZIP or some other ZIP utility to extract the contents of the CLIP2TXT.ZIP file.
It is recommended to put the CLIP2TXT.exe file in a directory that is contained in the PATH, e.g. C:\Windows\Command on Windows 9x, or C:\WinNT\System32 on Windows NT.

Using CLIP2TXT

Usage: CLIP2TXT.exe [options] filename [options]

Options: ( /option and --option are also accepted )
-d[isplay] = Display the clipboard contents on the screen.
-h[elp] = Display this usage information.
-n[ologo] = Don't display the Copyright banner.
-q[uiet] = Same as -nologo.
-s[ilent] = Same as -nologo.
-t[ranslate] = Convert from Windows ANSI to MS-DOS ASCII codes.
-? = Same as -help.

Options are not case-sensitive, and can be abbreviated to one character.

The following options are all interpreted the same:
-d, /d, -D, /D, --DISPLAY, /Display, -dIsP, ... you get the idea!

If no filename is specified, the clipboard contents will be displayed on the screen, translated for MS-DOS compatibility. In other words, "CLIP2TXT > FOO.TXT" is equivalent to "CLIP2TXT -T FOO.TXT". If a filename is specified, the -T option must also be specified.

Examples:

CLIP2TXT.exe FOO.TXT
Copies the Windows Clipboard contents to the file FOO.TXT in the current directory.

C:\TEMP\CLIP2TXT\clip2txt.exe -t "C:\My Documents\Long File Name.txt"
Copies the Clipboard to the specified file. Filenames containing spaces must be "enclosed in double quotes."

Known Issues and Limitations

CLIP2TXT only works if the contents of the Windows Clipboard are text. If the Clipboard contains graphics or other binary data, an error message will be displayed, and the output file will not be created.
CLIP2TXT v1.0 may not work if the Clipboard contains more than 64Kb of text. This may be corrected in a future release.

Support

CLIP2TXT comes with NO WARRANTY to the extent permitted by law.

You may redistribute copies of CLIP2TXT under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING, or contact the author at the address below.

Please report any bugs to .

Source Code availability

CLIP2TXT was developed in ANSI C, and compiled with Watcom C/C++ v11.0. Source code is included in the distribution file.

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