In FIDO.XPOINT on 25.10.03 (received 25.10.03)
Martin Foster  uttered
on the subject "new beta Version OpenXP (3.8.13)":

MF>>> I've just d/loaded and installed the 3.8.14-19 (DOS32) snapshot
MF>>> and I can confirm that there are no "ticks" or
"?" here either,
MF>>> which indicates to me that, even though all my archivers are on
MF>>> my path, OpenXP doesn't see them.

AS>> Same in a clean DOS environment - not being found at all.

MF> Confirmed here under MS-DOS.

MF> I find this a total pain because it makes OpenXP (DOS32) unusable
MF> for a FidoNet Point :-((

a) giving the full path in the archivers config and not just the  
archivers name should help
b) Markus has found and removed a bug with finding and evaluating the  
PATH variable under DOS.


AS>> Also getting that non-existent B: drive being indicated ?!!?

MF> Also confirmed under MS-DOS.

That seems to be tricky to remove under plain DOS. As far as I  
understand, there is no easy way under DOS to find out whether B: exists  
or not.

Other points:

Language switching should work now; at least it does on Markus' PC under  
MS-DOS.

Garbage on the screen under DR-DOS: this might be due to a wrong  
codepage (DR-DOS has a different default than MS-DOS). But as far as  
Markus explained, changing codepages alone does not suffice; it is  
necessary toload the correspondent font as well.

I hope Markus will upload a new DOS snapshot soon.




MfG / Regards
               Christian


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