Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:49:03 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Rhide & the windows clipboard.
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On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Endlisnis wrote:

>      I looked in the Clipboard Viewer program and everything that
> RHIDE puts into the clipboard ends up in 'Text' not in OEM Text.
> The problem that this causes is: 
> Many programs recieve their 'Paste' info from the 'OEM Text' section of the
> clipboard if both 'Text' and 'OEM Text' have data.

That's not the only problem.  Another problem is that Text and OEM
Text use different code pages, so you can get different (or missing)
characters when you paste.  A DOS program should use OEM Text to avoid
this.

> I believe this problem would be solved if RHIDE cleared the
> clipboard before copying to it, because if there is nothing in the
> clipboard when RHIDE tries copying, everything workes fine.

That's a different problem.  If RHIDE doesn't empty the clipboard
before it puts data there, it most certainly should.  Emacs does
that.