Hi Mike,
Good call on the ALT 0255.
I haven't tried on a Win95 machine, but on NT, I got the following:
Inserting ALT 0255 produces a quasi-ALT 255. It displays as the umlated y
in Edit all... , but displays as hard space in Select.
>From a DBMS the resultset displays an umlated y.
Our use of ALT 255 is infrequent, and is for administrative purposes and can
easily be maintained by a Win NT based browser. So this is not a big deal
to us but may be to someone who has some esoteric use of ALT 255.
On a different note: Win ME is part of which generation, Win 95/98 or Win
NT/2000? Win ME test results pending.
Brent
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: ALT 255 - Win 95/Win NT
>Hi Brent,
>
>I seem to remember something about putting a 0 (zero) in front of the 255.
I
>tested [Alt]0255 on WIN 98SE in Notepad and got the "Y" with the 2 dots
>above it (umlate???) which is closer to the hard space. I think at that
point it
>has to do with the characterset the operating system is using. I am a
little out
>of my league here but maybe the 0 will work for you.
>
>Best regards,
>Mike Young
>
>On Wed, 2 May 2001 09:20:05 -0700, Brent Skean wrote:
>
>>While not specific to RBASE, I've run across something that I would like
to
>>verify.
>>
>>Under Win NT, the following occurs when keying in ALT 255 from:
>>
>>DOS: hard space
>>Notepad: hard space
>>Browser: hard space
>>RBDOS 4.5++: hard space
>>RBWIN 6.x: hard space
>>
>>ie, it all works as expected.
>>
>>
>>Under Win 95, the following occurs when keying in ALT 255 from:
>>
>>DOS: hard space
>>Notepad: _
>>Browser: _
>>RBDOS 4.5++: hard space
>>RBWIN 6.x: UNTESTED
>>
>>Note the oddity under Notepad and Browser. This seems to be an actual
>ALT
>>95, the underscore.
>>
>>When inserting an ALT 255 into an RBWIN 6.x database via an R:Tango
>form, a
>>Win 95 browser will insert an _ instead of a hard space.
>>
>>Sel all from table where field = '_' yields the inserted record.
>>
>>The same action from an NT browser inserts the hard space properly.
>>
>>This is not RBASE specific... go to www.yahoo.com and put in an ALT
>255 in
>>the search box and I get an _.
>>
>>I am curious, do others see the same behavior; what about under
>>Win98/2000/ME?
>>
>>Brent Skean
>>Current Solutions
>>
>>
>
>
>
