Copy Path To Clipboard Tell me what you think of this prg.! Is it good? Does it suck? Tell me!

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Version 0.2 is out (new options are added)

Description ( Top )
This simple console application copies the path of the current working directory to the Windows clipboard. If you give it a parameter, it is added to the end of the path.
Example:

At the moment there are only some options: /? and /help gives a short help, /unix replaces the '\' character to Unix-like '/'. If the path contains spaces then the whole string is put between quotation marks.

Download ( Top )
You can download the source and its components here.

Install ( Top )
Just unpack it. You get the source (I used Dev-C++ during the development) and the binary too (cpc.exe). Copy the binary to a directory that is in your path, and then you can use it any time.

Options ( Top )
This is the output of the /h option:

cpc: copies the path of the current working dir. to the Windows clipboard
if a parameter is given, it'll also be added to the path

Usage: cpc [option] [parameter]
where option can be:
	/h , /help       get this help
	/q , /nq         don't add (no) quotation marks
	/fq              force quotation marks, do add them
	/u , /unix       change the path separator to UNIX-like separator
	that is: change "\" to "/"
	/d, /ds, /dos    change "\" to "\\"

v0.2, written by Laszlo Szathmary, szathml@delfin.unideb.hu

Version history ( Top )

Version	Date	Remark
V0.2	August 2003	some useful options added (use /h to get the help)
V0.1 again	May 2003	code rewritten
v0.1	about 1999	First implementation. It was all very nice, but I lost the source :( I don't know how it happened, I always make backups. The binary remained, so I could use it, but then I had the idea to make it open source, but without source it's quite difficult. So I had to rewrite it.

Tips ( Top )
Here are some tips how to use it effectively:

• under Windows I always use Total Commander (in my opinion this is the best Windows application :)). For ex. you want to make a shortcut for a file on the desktop. In TC the file is highlighted, then "cpc <CTRL-ENTER>", then ENTER. OK, full path is on the clipboard. When you make the shortcut and Windows asks what file you want to add, just <CTRL-V>+<ENTER>. I hate that tree-visualisation of Windows, where normally you have to choose the file.

Ideas / To do ( Top )
Some useful options, but what? Any idea? Anyway, a good Windows programmer could look at the function copyStringToClipboard() because I am not sure that it's completely correct. The program runs fine, but who knows? :)

Credits ( Top )
A friend of mine, Gabor helped me in the first implementation coding the copyStringToClipboard() function. Unfortunately this code got lost :(

How to contact me ( Top )
If you have any ideas how to improve this project, then send me your suggestions/patches to szathml@delfin.unideb.hu.

Created by Laszlo Szathmary, alias Jabba Laci, 2003

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