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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:49:56 +0000
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Subject: Re: Rhide & the windows clipboard.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > > Then open RHide, type "pppp", send it to the windows clipboard.
> > > Go back to Netscape Composer, paste on the next line.  On my machine I get
> > > 'Hello' where I would expect 'pppp'.
> > 
> > I tried it and I got the same you got, but that's a particular thing of 
> > Netscape. Pegasus doesn't make it.
> 
> What happens if you paste into a DOS box (using the toolbar)?

Works.
 
> > I think Netscape is using some strange 
> > mechanism to detect changes in the Windows clipboard and it doesn't
> > work when the information is copied using the WinOldApp services of
> > Windows. As the only program I know that behaves like that is
> > Netscape I guess the bug is in Netscape, but perhaps is some strange
> > thing in the Windows WinOldApp API.
> 
> What format does RHIDE use to put text into the clipboard?  Is it
> CF_TEXT or CF_OEMTEXT?  I have found that OEMTEXT is the better way;
> TEXT caused some weird behavior with DJGPP-compiled Emacs.  The
> problems I saw were different from what's described above, but I think
> switching to OEMTEXT is a good idea anyhow.

Ok, I'll try it.

Greetings, SET 
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