MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet e661021d   
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   PID: OpenXP/5.0.45 (Win32)   
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   TZUTC: 0100   
   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   
      
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