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Hi Michiel,

On 2024-04-20 08:03:01, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>>> My idea is that one can expect that what works on the command
 MvdV>>> line should also work for entering text in CLI applications.

 WV>> Your expectations are wrong! ;-)

 MvdV> Really? Is it really unrealistic to expect that what works when
entereing text
 MvdV> on the command line also works when entering text in a command line
 MvdV> application? That the expectation is not always fulfilled does not
imply it is
 MvdV> unrealistic I'd say...

That's what I meant. ;)

 WV>> And there seems to be special code to handle the alt-numpad keys at
 WV>> line 1760 and further...

 MvdV> I woulkd have expected the \os to take part of that so that a simple OS
call
 MvdV> would do it.

Unfortunately not...

 MvdV> But then Golded was originally written for DOS where one had to
 MvdV> write all that low level code. Plus that Windows internally uses
 MvdV> unicode and the DOS code is all written around the one byte one
 MvdV> character coding...

 MvdV> So maybe "DOS think" is still in  the way....

This code is specific for Windows. The MSDOS code is from line 1563 to 1625,
and uses cpu.genint(0x16);


Bye, Wilfred.

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