Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 13:13:27 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Jan Middelkoop cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with Win32/UNIX character set In-Reply-To: <20021109100359.A87258-100000@teknap.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Jan Middelkoop wrote: > Hello. > > I seem to be able to compile and run a problem fine, but when I run it, I > notice it uses a UNIX character set instead of the DOS character set (I do > NOT mean the endline characters - I mean the character set in general), > so certain things (ASCII art mainly) look very messed up. > > How do I get this program to use the DOS character set? > Is there an option for this in CygWin, do I have to #define something? > > Thanks in advance, > DJHyperbyte Yes. Add "codepage:oem" to your CYGWIN environment variable. Igor P.S. David (Starks-Browning), should this be in the FAQ? FWIW, I haven't found anything related to codepage:* in the User's Guide page on the CYGWIN variable, either. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/