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   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.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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