Re: DOS v Win encoding

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:

** Reply to message from Bill Troop  on
Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:05:07 +0100


I downloaded the files as instructed in help ansity
and followed the instructions


Which files did you download? Since you seem to be running in a
DOS window, the only files to DL are fonts.


And where did Bill find them? The ANSI,ANSITY help file says to
download
http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/ANSI1252.ZIP

And further says that it contains the following:
VGA.com
CP1252.fnt
CP437.f16
CP850.f16
separator and UpperCase tables for CP1252, 850, and 437
(SEP1252.PRN, SEP850.PRN, and SEP437.PRN); NEWCHARS.PRO;
ANSI.SUB; and a fully-functional POSTANSI.PRN.

Now I found a ANSI1252.ZIP (4176K, dated 9-5-2002; but I cannot
be sure if that was when it was created, downloaded, or copied to
that drive) on my desktop's archive drive, but when unzipped it
contained only
ANSI   SUB    1457   9-05-2002 12:52pm
CP1252  FNT    4096   2-05-1999  7:40pm
NEWCHARS PRO    1252   9-05-2002 12:51pm
VGA    COM    1145   9-15-1995  5:20am

(I unzipped it using InfoZIP; I am well aware that WinZip and
other pieces of offal sometimes do not extract all the files in a
zip archive.) So I thought I might have an older version and went
to XyWWWeb to try and get the newer, but all I got (whenever I
included the 'ansi1252.zip' in the address) was "File not found."

So my first question is where is ANSI1252.zip and what does it
contain?

I have other questions, but I want to look further in the
archives before making an ass of myself.



That's a totally different issue. Vista uses a new model of
video driver 


Thanks for clarifying that. I turned off Aero and the rest of the
eye-candy first thing, but as I don't run full screen in either
Xy or dBase, I don't see the need to go get the XP drivers (I
made sure they existed, in case I decided to downgrade, before I
got the laptop; but so far I can live with Vista.)

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx