Copy File Path?

Is there any way to copy the file location path like how you can in Windows? ie, when you press "get info" under general info, it displays where the file is eg. /Users/bc/Desktop/file.doc
is there any way to copy this piece of text easily and paste in an email?

Sorry for the confusion. Well, for the life of me, I did not notice the incomplete posix path in the GetInfo window. Yeah, some movement. OS 10.3 GetInfo window lists the path with colons. OS 9? Hey, I just created a text file named my/new/file. I looks fine and opens fine in the Finder. In the other user interface:
% cat my/new/file
cat: my/new/file: No such file or directory
Yes, I know about the smoke and mirrors. But path separators allowed in one interface but not the other? Choose one and use it! The path drop down menu doesn't work for me either. Can I construct a posix path?
% cd /g5/g5drive/
cd: no such file or directory: /g5/g5drive/
I could go on but I'll stay on topic. My old friend the Finder needs an overhaul.

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Hi,
I did test this (I got distracted from looking for the thread to post to it).
I tested with A Google ID and a Jabber ID (one on Each computer) and could send the Text and it appeared as a Live link and showed where the file was.
It did not matter which was sending (10.6.4 or 10.5.8)
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I double checked firewalls. (Both allowing iChat)
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Message was edited by: Toelessfoot

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{The last link in this post is most relevant, except for your recent finding.}
The reference was to the User permissions, per each; as when these
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basic duties do not find an error with them. That is because there is
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh194.html
• _Rearranging Files (and renaming them)_ InformIT: Mac OS X unleashed
http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=MacOS_XUnleashed&seqNum=122
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{ edited: was distracted }

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I Don't want to include the file name in destination file. i.e. File destinationFile=new File("C:\\apple"), and at the same time the pdf with same name has to get stored in the destination location, how can I achieve this.It's not totally clear what you're saying here, but what I think you mean is that you don't want to explicitly set the destination file name--you want to just give the copy the same name as the original. Yes?
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