Hello August!
*** Monday 13.07.20 at 01:10, August Abolins wrote to All:
AA> The following occurred once before, but I wrote it off as an oddity that
AA> I triggered (somehow) ..and would not repeat. But it *has* repeated.
AA> And I am wondering what the trigger might be.
AA> When I drop to DOS shell via F9, the console switches to cyrillic!
AA> The prompt looks normal, but subsequent keyboard entries are cyrillic.
Yikes!
AA> A cut'n'paste of what I saw doesn't work here since this session is
AA> CP437, so instead I've captured a screen shot of the result here:
AA> http://pics.rsh.ru/img/oxpcyrillic_guogdnj3.jpg
WOW!
AA> And, when that happens, there is no way to safely exit the shell. :(
AA> If I was in the middle of writing a message (which I was this 2nd time),
AA> and shell to DOS, I lose the message I was working on since I have to
AA> kill OXP.
AA> Is there an history of this phenomenon that gives a clue as to why the
AA> cyrillic codepage gets triggered?
Nope, never ever heard of that happening before.
AA> 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
--- OpenXP 5.0.45
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)
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