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in thread Character encoding in console in Windows

Try it, what happens is the filepath get pasted into the current line
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Re^5: Character encoding in console in Windows
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 11, 2010 at 20:26 UTC

    Not on my system it doesn't.

    Just to clarify. I'm dragging a file from the Explorer over a console window.

    And when I do, the cursor switches to the "no entry' sign.

    When I drop, nothing at all happens. Regardless of whether the console session is at the shell prompt awaiting input, or if there is a perl script running blocked reading from STDIN.

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      Hmm, well it works for me in windows 2000, xp and windows 7 ... doesn't seem to be related to quick edit or insert mode
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        Strange. A) That I've never encountered it. B) that they dropped it for Vista.

        Not that I'm gonna miss what I never knew I had.

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      I've always gotten the same results as the anonymous monk: The quoted path to the file gets pasted into the console. Win2k Pro, WinXP Pro, Win7 Pro.
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