Hello Christian!

*** 26.10.03 at 18:26, Christian Boettger wrote to Martin Foster:

 CB> In FIDO.XPOINT on 25.10.03 (received 25.10.03)
 CB> Martin Foster  uttered
 CB> 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 :-((

 CB> a) giving the full path in the archivers config and not just the
 CB> archivers name should help

Yes it does, thanks.

 CB> b) Markus has found and removed a bug with finding and evaluating
 CB> the PATH variable under DOS.

OK, thanks.

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

 MF>> Also confirmed under MS-DOS.

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

OK.

 CB> Other points:

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

Yes it does and I think I already confirmed that.

 CB> Garbage on the screen under DR-DOS: this might be due to a wrong
 CB> codepage (DR-DOS has a different default than MS-DOS).

Nope, CP437 in use here.

 CB> But as far as Markus explained, changing codepages alone does not
 CB> suffice; it is necessary toload the correspondent font as well.

DR-DOS provides 5 font files, 4 of which are printer fonts so that leaves  
one to choose from -> EGA.CPI

 CB> I hope Markus will upload a new DOS snapshot soon.

Yeah, so do I.

Regards,
Martin

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