Hello!

The following occurred once before, but I wrote it off as an oddity that I triggered (somehow) ..and would not repeat. But it *has* repeated. And
I am wondering what the trigger might be.

When I drop to DOS shell via F9, the console switches to cyrillic!

The prompt looks normal, but subsequent keyboard entries are cyrillic.

A cut'n'paste of what I saw doesn't work here since this session is CP437,
so instead I've captured a screen shot of the result here:

http://pics.rsh.ru/img/oxpcyrillic_guogdnj3.jpg


And, when that happens, there is no way to safely exit the shell. :(

If I was in the middle of writing a message (which I was this 2nd time),
and shell to DOS, I lose the message I was working on since I have to kill OXP.

Is there an history of this phenomenon that gives a clue as to why the cyrillic codepage gets triggered?

Is there is DOS trick to exit a sub shell invoked by F9?


../|ug

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Hello August!

*** Monday 13.07.20 at 01:10, August Abolins wrote to All:

The following occurred once before, but I wrote it off as an oddity that
I triggered (somehow) ..and would not repeat. But it *has* repeated.
And I am wondering what the trigger might be.

When I drop to DOS shell via F9, the console switches to cyrillic!

The prompt looks normal, but subsequent keyboard entries are cyrillic.

Yikes!

A cut'n'paste of what I saw doesn't work here since this session is
CP437, so instead I've captured a screen shot of the result here:

http://pics.rsh.ru/img/oxpcyrillic_guogdnj3.jpg

WOW!

And, when that happens, there is no way to safely exit the shell. :(

If I was in the middle of writing a message (which I was this 2nd time), and shell to DOS, I lose the message I was working on since I have to
kill OXP.

Is there an history of this phenomenon that gives a clue as to why the cyrillic codepage gets triggered?

Nope, never ever heard of that happening before.

Is there is DOS trick to exit a sub shell invoked by F9?

Question#1:
Why do you need to drop to DOS?

Question#2:
Why can't you just invoke another instance of a command window?

Regards,
Martin

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Hello Martin!

** On Monday 13.07.20 - 11:05, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

Is there is DOS trick to exit a sub shell invoked by F9?

Question#1:
Why do you need to drop to DOS?

Question#2:
Why can't you just invoke another instance of a command window?

LOL. Reminds me of the man who asked his doctor "Hey Doc, it hurts when
I do [insert description]". Dr replies, "Then, stop doing that."

Well.. Two answers to your questions. [1] I thought that just one tap on
F9 to get to a prompt was pretty fast to get [a] to the OXP working
directory where I need to make a quick hop to the /FILES directory to do
what I need: sometimes I just need to rename the Micronet and FSXNET
nodelist files so that OXP can open them properly with the E(x)tract
command. [b] Sometimes after a reboot, I need to issue "net stop beep" to turn off the annoying speaker buzzer that OXP triggers during EOF in the editor. There are a few other things I like to do in DOS. But why not
just invoke another instance, you ask.. [2] That's precisely what I still
do most of the time. It's handy to have that DOS window open whilst OXP is
in another window especially if I need to linger in DOS for a little while longer and still do some reading or editing in OXP.

BUT.. I just thought I'd report OXP's change to the cyrillic codepage for
the record incase there was a known issue about it.

BTW.. when I drop to DOS with F9, the DOS command CHCP usually reports codepage 1252. I guess that is equivalent to ISO 8859-1. I use the
smooth Lucida Console font for the DOS properties.







../|ug

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Hello August!

*** Monday 13.07.20 at 09:33, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

[snip]

BUT.. I just thought I'd report OXP's change to the cyrillic codepage for the record incase there was a known issue about it.

I think you should report this issue in the support newsgroup because as
well as the developer, there are a *LOT* of long-standing XP users in
there, some of whom may have some ideas/suggestions and who may have even seen this issue before.

Regards,
Martin

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