I met a strange behavior in copying configuration text from a notepad TXT file and paste into winbox terminal windows (right click-paste) in ros 7.10.1 :
pasted text put in and out safe mode, often random characters are displayed, causing bad command name.
All is fine pasting the same text (from windows clipboard) into a telnet session.
Any idea ?
Thanks.
If you are pasting large/huge amounts of text into any network device ( via telnet or ssh ) , consider using Terra-Term.
Terra-Term has two optional delay options
North Idaho Tom Jones
Yes character and line delay is very useful in transferring many lines at a time (something like fast-typing by hand), however telnet/ssh is not the issue.
I always used to copy-paste from notepad to winbox terminal remotely and locally either, never had any problem.
This time I connected my HP notebook nic directly to an HAp-AX3 ethernet and got this behavior, either mac or IP connect, even just copying a single line.
I tried few reset-no default cfg without success.
Weird, really…
I have the same problem with copy/paste in Winbox with Notepad. Use notepad++.
one of the problems with pasting into a cli on any device might be the following:
Thus this is one of the reasons I sometimes use the Terra-Term telnet/ssh program when pasting large amounts of data. The delay settings after each character ( I use 1 ms ) and the delay settings after a carriage-return/line-feed ( I use 30 ms ) , will pause the paste just long enough for the CPU to complete processing something and return to the TCP/IP input buffer prior to it filling up - thus no loss of data and no garbage.
North Idaho Tom Jones
I have the same problem with winbox and notepad. I don’t see this issue with any other ssh/telnet client so the suggestions offered, while helpful in most cases, don’t really apply here
Re: … don’t really apply here …
I assume you know you can ssh and/or telnet into a Mikrotik - so It sure does apply here ( especially when pasting thousands of lines into a Mikrotik - such as a NAT444 config to manage thousands of IPs across a dozen networks )
Bumping up this thread. This is beyond unbelievable - copy pasting from Notepad was NEVER a problem with ROS 6. Pasting ROS 6 config to ROS 7 console malforms the lines.
I always thought, that Notepad = clean text input / output and I am usually using it as a middle ground to copy paste across apps, and it always works. Not so with Mikrotik ROS 7 console.
And you know what? I have tried something completly crazy - I have copy pasted the config to MS Word. And man, it just works. MT should win some special prize for curing out the MS Word inefficiencies!
So plese, Mikrotik - could you fix this apparent buggy copy paste experince? And please, don’t suggest using other editor apart from Notepad - you know, I’ve got the MS Word already 
Might be read as funny experience, except it’s not - there will be many ppl trying to get their config from ROS 6 to ROS 7 generation. We should make their experience easier, not the opposite.
Just wanted to add my experience here. Like the rest of you, I just ran into this issue with all sorts of weird behaviour as others have found.
I think you are jumping the gun to blame Mikrotik here. You know what else has had a lot of updates in recent months apart from RouterOS? Notepad has.
As much as I don’t really use Notepad++, I just switched to it and the problems instantly went away.
Now I can’t say for sure that is isn’t a weird Winbox compatibility issue, but I do know for a fact that Notepad has had a tonne of updates (which I’m personally not a fan of, but that’s a different issue) so at least for now just switch to Notepad++ when doing this kind of task.
Try updating RouterOS
The last few versions had updates that specifically dealt with pasting large text with SSH, but I am not sure if the Terminal window is an SSH connection or Telnet.
*) ssh - fix error that caused large chunks of text not being pasted in their entirety into console;
*) ssh - improved connection stability when pasting large chunks of text into console;
Not sure how they define “large”, but they did make improvements.
And don’t forget that you are using Windows and that using two characters for ending lines.
And unix/linux only uses one character for ending lines.
= Carriage return
= Line feed
For Windows
Ascii dec value 13,10
For Unix/Linux
Ascii dec value 10
For Mac OS Ver < 10
Ascii value dec 13
If you using relative newer versions of editor you can switch between thees 3 variants.
And then mark the text and copy and then paste. So you get the correct line endings with just .
It’s actually got worse over time with new versions of winbox.
It has nothing to do with CR+LF because often you don’t get anywhere near the right text or amount of it and appears to be a clipboard issue.
Using an SSH agent like putty and using that to paste text in seems to be better but I have still had issues with what seems to be font character differences.
Ok , but once text is copied (from notepad, word, wordpad, etc. ) it gaves unwanted behavior online when pasted into winbox, all’ is fine via network connections like telnet or ssh,
Where is the real issue ??
You need to be copy/pasting from a plain text editor..
If you make " marks and it curls them to be pretty, it isn’t going to work.
I have the same issue with Winbox - latest version, latest version of ROS/etc. This has been happening for about a year or so now - on all PC’s that I own. Doesn’t matter if notepad++ or notepad.exe - only have the issue with Winbox. Never used to have it. There are times when SSH/telnet is not a viable option.
If I copy the terminal data from Winbox3.41 to notepad in Windows 11, there are errors when I paste it back into the terminal..
If I do the same with MS Word, it’s fine.
But if I paste from notepad anywhere other than Winbox, it’s fine too. And even into the terminal of the new Winbox4. It must also be a problem on Mikrotik’s side. Unfortunately, Winbox4 is unusable so far, so we have no alternative.