Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:37:18 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Henry" <henryhc AT knology DOT net>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:33:36 -0400
> 
> Whenever I type 'copy con' and then the file into the prompt it does not
> display the information contained in the file, and therefore no matter what
> text was inside it, it just copies a blank file.

You got it backwards: the correct command is `copy file con'.  Or
simply `type file'.