R.Wieser wrote on 2016/01/14:

I've noticed that my XPsp3 has got a version of MORE.COM which, in
circumstances, skips the first set/page of lines. That means I need a
bug-fixed replacement. Does someone have it for me ?

And outof curiosity, has anyone else noticed the same ?

In what path (folder) is the more.com that you call? If you are using
the PATH environment variable to specify executable paths, perhaps you
are using a more.com other than what came with Windows. XP, and later,
also use the registry to specify appPaths. Used regedit to look at:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\App Paths

Each subkey is the name of the executable and a data value tells where
to find the executable. more.com should be under %windir%\System32 and
that should already be specified in the PATH environment variable, so
there should not be a registry AppPath for it; however, the rules for
executable search is to use the current folder first, so if you have a
more.com there then that one gets used.

You sure the file contains only *printable* TEXT characters? No
printing or control (hidden) characters?

Are you using the command-line to more.com to specify the file? Or are
you piping or redirecting the output of another console-mode command
(output goes to stdout) into the more.com program (e.g., program |
more)? If you are specifying the file(s) as an argument to the more
program then it should have only printable ASCII8 characters. If you
are piping the output of a program into more.com, the program may issue
output to stdout and stderr. The standard piping only redirects stdout.
Standard redirection () only redirects stdout. For stderr, you have to
use "2", as in "program 2 stderr.txt". You didn't say HOW you are
using more.com so I don't know if you are piping stdout into it or
redirecting its output to a file or what.

more.com is designed to paginate the output. Do you really need it
paginated? If you redirect stdout to a file then pagination means you
might not get all of the file redirected into another file.

Have you tried using "type" command (internal command inside of cmd.com)
if pagination is not needed?

Does the file look okay when you load it into Notepad? Does it look
okay when you run "type file otherfile & notepad otherfile"?

I haven't been on Windows XP for a few years but I don't remember
encountering what you describe back when I used Windows XP (unless there
were non-printable control or print characters within the file). You
aren't using the +n command-line argument that says to skip n lines in
the file, are you?

What is the command line you enter? You can pipe into more.com. You
can redirect into more.com. You can redirect out of more.com. more.com
has command-line arguments. Just saying "more.com" doesn't tell us HOW
you are using it.