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   Wilfred van Velzen to Michiel van der Vlist   
   Re: FMail 2.3.1.0 release   
   20 Apr 24 11:30:41   
   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.3.2.2-B20240419   
   RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes   
   TZUTC: 0200   
   CHRS: CP850 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20240306   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 66238b43   
   REPLY: 2:280/464.5555 66235c96   
   Hi Michiel,   
      
   On 2024-04-20 08:03:01, you wrote to me:   
      
    MvdV>>> My idea is that one can expect that what works on the command   
    MvdV>>> line should also work for entering text in CLI applications.   
      
    WV>> Your expectations are wrong! ;-)   
      
    MvdV> Really? Is it really unrealistic to expect that what works when   
   entereing text   
    MvdV> on the command line also works when entering text in a command line   
    MvdV> application? That the expectation is not always fulfilled does not   
   imply it is   
    MvdV> unrealistic I'd say...   
      
   That's what I meant. ;)   
      
    WV>> And there seems to be special code to handle the alt-numpad keys at   
    WV>> line 1760 and further...   
      
    MvdV> I woulkd have expected the \os to take part of that so that a simple OS   
   call   
    MvdV> would do it.   
      
   Unfortunately not...   
      
    MvdV> But then Golded was originally written for DOS where one had to   
    MvdV> write all that low level code. Plus that Windows internally uses   
    MvdV> unicode and the DOS code is all written around the one byte one   
    MvdV> character coding...   
      
    MvdV> So maybe "DOS think" is still in  the way....   
      
   This code is specific for Windows. The MSDOS code is from line 1563 to 1625,   
   and uses cpu.genint(0x16);   
      
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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