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   August Abolins to All   
   oxp: jumps to cyrillic   
   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   
      
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