From: ndm AT shore DOT net (Norman D. Megill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp loses characters when pasting to DOS
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Date: 20 Jan 1999 11:01:54 -0500
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In article <784s17$5cv$1 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>,
Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> wrote:
>Norman D. Megill (ndm AT shore DOT net) wrote:
>: Help!  Cut-and-paste from a text editor into DOS is losing characters
>: when used with djgpp programs.  This does not happen with the lcc
>: compiler, nor with standard DOS utilities.  It happens even with "fast
>: pasting" turned off in DOS.  I downloaded the latest djgpp as of 1/20/99
>: and the bug is still there.
>
>: By the way something seems to have degraded over time on my machine
>: where this bug used to not happen very often, then more frequently, and
>: now all the time.  Wierd.
>
>: I have Windows 95 on a Gateway 2300 laptop purchased 2/98.  The problem
>: happens with both:  djdev201.zip/gcc2721b.zip and djdev202.zip/gcc281b.zip.
>: (BTW how do I find out the version of DOS?  There seems to be no "About.."
>: button on the DOS window and MS has also removed the "HELP" command...)
>
>Type "ver" at a DOZE prompt.

It doesn't tell me the DOS version. It says:
D:\r>ver

Windows 95. [Version 4.00.1111]

>
>I have notice a similar effect while copying from a DOZE window to another 
>DOZE window. Although I do not cut out the end of line, the paste operation
>is inserting one anyway. My guess is that your editor (or perhaps WINDOZE 
>itself) is inserting some control characters or something.
>
OK, I tried it from Notepad.  Same behavior.
Also, why would djgpp be sensitive to it and not lcc?
The extra end-of-line copy from DOS is known (and at least deterministic)
behavior, I believe.

--Norm