It's a long time since I've pasted something into a Windows 95 DOS terminal, but I don't think it worked the way you're thinking. IIRC by default you couldn't

It's a long time since I've pasted something into a Windows 95 DOS terminal, but I don't think it worked the way you're thinking. IIRC by default you couldn't just select text with the mouse - as DOS had never had mouse support, and didn't really have the concept of text being selected. You had to click a particular button to activate text selection before it was possible to copy. The GUI looked like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft_Windows_95_Version_4.00.1111_command.com_MS-DOS_Prompt_492x259.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft_Windows_95... you'll note there's a toolbar at the top; the dotted square to the right of the 'Auto' dropdown let you select text, then the copy and paste buttons to the right of that let you copy and paste. You'll note that, with no text selected, the copy button is greyed out. I am confused by the article, though - Ctrl+C is famous as the copy key combination, and yet apparently it's the 'cancel active paste' key combination? - so perhaps someone with an even better memory will correct me :)