May 20, 2013 | The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

The importance of remembering parity in a back-and-forth race on your flying bicycle

Raymond Chen May 20, 2013 May 20, 2013 05/20/13

I dreamed that one of my friends had made the U.S. cycling team. (Perhaps because everybody else got busted for doping.) Even more implausibly, I also made the team. To celebrate, he challenged me to a short race. The path ran along a river, in which a medium-sized boat was setting sail. Our bicycles somehow could fly (which we considered ...

Copying a file to the clipboard so you can paste it into Explorer or an email message or whatever

Raymond Chen May 20, 2013 May 20, 2013 05/20/13

Today's Little Program takes a fully-qualified file name from the command line and puts that file onto the clipboard. Once there, you can paste it into an Explorer window, or into an email message, or a word processing document, or anybody else who understands shell data objects. #include <windows.h> #include <shlobj.h> #include...

The Old New Thing

May 20, 2013 | The Old New Thing

The importance of remembering parity in a back-and-forth race on your flying bicycle

Copying a file to the clipboard so you can paste it into Explorer or an email message or whatever

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