Re: Code pages

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

This whole thing is really bugging me. Computers are supposed to be
science, not witchcraft or jiggery-pokery. Would anyone be interested
in doing an experiment after the holidays? I'll clean up my portable
Xy setup (getting rid of any idiosyncratic settings and things in it),
and zip it up and send it to anyone who is willing to try this. You
would unzip it to a new directory on your hard drive (NOT your current
Xy one), and try running Xy. (Since this is a portable setup, it
doesn't matter what drive and directory it's in; and you would now
have such a setup, to run off a flash drive on strange PCs, without
the hassle of setting it up; just add your own frames, if any, to U2,
and correct entries in the Xy Registry). First thing, command VA/NV
LA. If it returns, as it does on every system I've tried, 850, but
your setup continually returns 437, then we have good evidence that
it's something in your Xy installation that's skewing things. If it
too returns 437, that would seem to indicate something in your Windows
setup or, just possibly, the hardware or BIOS of your system.

Think about this and let me know after the holidays.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx