Subj : oxp: jumps to cyrillic
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Jul 13 2020 09:33:00

Hello Martin!

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

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

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

 MF> Question#2:
 MF> 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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