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to: Oli
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2023-02-23 16:18:00
subject: Re: Linux / 5D

Hi Oli,

On 2023-02-23 16:07:09, I wrote to you:

 WvV>>> I found another way that gives consistent codes on XP and W10x64:

 WvV>>> http://www.vlzn.nl/fmail/files/getchtest_win2.zip

 WvV>>> Can you test it in wine?

 WvV>>> For:

 WvV>>> UP
 WvV>>> DOWN
 WvV>>> F1
 WvV>>> F2
 WvV>>> INSERT
 WvV>>> DELETE
 WvV>>> a
 WvV>>> b

 WvV>>> I get:

 WvV>>>      0 - 00 - ' ' + 26
 WvV>>>      0 - 00 - ' ' + 28
 WvV>>>      0 - 00 - ' ' + 70
 WvV>>>      0 - 00 - ' ' + 71
 WvV>>>      0 - 00 - ' ' + 2D
 WvV>>>      0 - 00 - ' ' + 2E
 WvV>>>     97 - 61 - 'a' + 41
 WvV>>>     98 - 62 - 'b' + 42

 Ol>> $ wine getchtest_win2-mingw32.exe
 Ol>>     0 - 00 - '    0 - 00 - '    0 - 00 - '    0 - 00 - '    0 - 00 - '
 Ol>> 0 - 00 - '   97 - 61 - 'a' + 41
 Ol>>    98 - 62 - 'b' + 42

 Ol>> (line breaks after 'a' and 'b' only)

 WvV> Ok strange how the wine console reponds differently when a 0x00 character
 WvV> is printed. But I changed that to printing a space char now, so please try
 WvV> again (it's in the same .zip)...

In reactos I get the same output as on my windows machines, so this looks promissing!


Bye, Wilfred.

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