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|    13 Jul 20 01:10:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e665227a       PID: OpenXP/5.0.45 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0400       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              --- OpenXP 5.0.45        * Origin: ----------Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.---------- (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 154/10 203/0 221/1       SEEN-BY: 221/6 360 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 664 1014 240/2100       SEEN-BY: 240/5138 5832 5853 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 288/100 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81       SEEN-BY: 423/120 712/848 770/1 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119       PATH: 221/1 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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