Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 11:39:24 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
cc: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Rhide & the windows clipboard.
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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)?

> 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.