Re: A Real puzzler

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:
va/nv LA gives 850 but this, copied and pasted from the web, comes out
badly with GSview and fine in NB. How does it come out on your system?
Well, even in e-mail (Thunderbird), before even trying to paste into Xy,
this reads:
has been that sensation is 246 "impoverished" vis-a-vis our actual

It looks right in my Eudora, too.
Note what Robert said (1/17/2006) about Clip and CodePages:
>>CLIP.EXE requires several parameters to function (that's
why you get an Error msg when you command "CLIP" by itself). The error
msg actually spells out those parameters, for people who want to perform
these sorts of tests:

CLIP [optional A|B] TargetCodePage SourceCodePage [optional ChunkSize]
If you're *Pasting*, the "Target"=XyWrite, so the TargetCodePage is
probably either 437 or 850 -- let's use 437, the default CodePage of
XyWrite, and also
the CodePage of expanded view even if your default is 850 (we're ignoring
the possibility of 1252, for ANSIfied XyWrite or NBWin -- not relevant in
your case).

I'm not following all this, but to paste I use not clip.exe but U2 clipw.
The SourceCodePage is probably 1252 -- let's assume that it is. The
"Source" is the Clipboard itself, most immediately duh, but the ultimate
source is probably some Windows app, and they all use 1252. I'm sure you
know all this...

Sort of.
We'll use the default ChunkSize of 8192 bytes. We'll ignore the optional
A|B params.

So: your test command line will be:
 CLIP.EXE 437 1252

Do it.

Okay, I'm trying it (after launching DOS)
 What happens? *Nothing* apparent should happen! But file CLIP.TXT
should now be in Editor's directory. LIST it (or TYPE it or view with
NOTEPAD or whatever). Is it a faithful copy of whatever you Copied from
a Windows app?<<
Yes, i.e., it has the same funny characters I see in Xy instead of the
curly quotes I see on the web. For instance, the open quote is 93hex (= 147
decimal).

What do you conclude?



Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx