From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Rhide & the windows clipboard.
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:39:55 -0300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > > What happens if you paste into a DOS box (using the toolbar)?
> > Works.
> This almost certainly indicates that switching to CF_OEMTEXT will solve
> these problems.  DOS programs (such as RHIDE) that want their clipboard
> data be read correctly by Windows GUI programs (such as Netscape) need to
> use CF_OEMTEXT, while CF_TEXT will work just fine between two DOS
> programs (such as RHIDE and COMMAND.COM).

     I've run into situations when pasting into a DOS box grabed the OEM Text
(put there by some windows program) instead of the stuff put into Text by
RHIDE.

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