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- From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: National characters in texts
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 15:46:46 GMT
- Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
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- Sender: klute@tommy (Rainer Klute)
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- In article <wfEnStG00WoiMIG2hW@andrew.cmu.edu>, rr2b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
- (Robert Andrew Ryan) writes:
- |> Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 30-Dec-92 National characters
- |> in texts Rainer Klute@ucbvax.Berk (642)
- |>
- |> > What annoys me is that typing a national character (i. e. a German
- |> > umlaut) in, say, ez crashes the application. Is this regarded as
- |> usual
- |> > behavior, could it be due to my unusual installation, or did I miss
- |> > anything in the documentation?
- |>
- |> This is certainly not normal behavior. Which version of Andrew are you
- |> using? (5.1 is the latest public release) Check that
- |> $ANDREWDIR/lib/compchar exists and contains the single readable file
- |> comps. It should start out like below...
-
- I am using Andrew 5.1, and $ANDREWDIR/lib/compchar/comps looks fine.
- Meanwhile I gathered some disk space and built the Andrew configuration:
- same behaviour. I just started another built with MK_BASIC_UTILS defined in
- order to get this console application.
-
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