type not breaks on 1a

[carlos]

Hello. Until now I says that type command break on 1a character. But now, with more test I found that the type command end printing to screen on 1a character, but if redirect to the file, the file have all the data.

Example:
file.txt with:

text1[1A]text2

type file.txt
will print only text1

but type file.txt > mirror.log
mirror.log will have the same data that file.txt

I'm curious about why the data stop on the screen but not on the redirection file

[Sponge Belly]

Hi Carlos,

Reread the recent Ctrl-Z Blues topic. You contributed towards the end, but I recommend reading the whole thing from the beginning. You’ll find out more about Ctrl-Z than you ever wanted to know!

- SB

[penpen]

The type command breaks the line containing only 0x1A character:

68 69 1A 74 68 65 72 65

Then just call:

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Z:\>cmd /U
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

Z:\>type test.dat > test2.dat

68 00 69 00

You can see that it is not caused by the output stream with this batch:

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@echo off
(
   cmd /d /u /c type "test.dat"
   echo abc
) > "test3.dat"

68 00 69 00 61 62 63 0D 0A

penpen

Edit: added the "seem to" and the note.
Edit2: removed the "seem to" and replaced the note by the batch.

Note: I've remeoved my WRONG last post: lacking in concentration. Sorry to all.