Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/08/10/08:40:33
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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