#355 COPY CON Unexpected message interferes with text input

[Anonymous]

Unexpected message interferes with text input. The trivial solution is to overwrite the line. Apart from this minor bug the command fulfills its mission and the text can be saved successfully. Another comment: COPY CON does not seem to be documented in the HELP. Greetings.

[Jim Hall]

issue 2: I have created a new Wiki entry for "CON:" that describes the behavior of hte DOS console (user input via the keyboard, or user output via the display)

http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/CON

bug: fixed

[Jim Hall]

issue 1: I was able to reproduce this behavior. You're seeing output from COPY displayed on stderr, but it's not actually input from stdin (CON). Here's my sample:

D:\TEMP>copy con: t.txt
con =>> t.txt
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
copied 0KB/???KB

and...

D:\TEMP>copy con: t.txt
con =>> t.txt
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
zzzzzzzzzz/???KB
zzzzzzzzzz/???KB
^Zpied 0KB/???KB
D:\TEMP>type t.txt
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
zzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzz

The "unexpected text" is a normal warning message from COPY that is being displayed. This isn't really a "bug" per se but confusion about a warning message.

Marking as closed (not a bug). If you disagree and think this is a bug that needs to be addressed, please enter a new issue on GitLab.

[Jim Hall]

Marking as closed (not a bug). If you disagree and think this is a bug that needs to be addressed, please enter a new issue on GitLab.