FTP Explorer and Windows XP

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

I use this great program... But on WinXP the log display windows look
weird. Instead of new-line between lines I get to pipes (|). Also have
this problem in some other programs. If I copy the text and paste it
anywhere then the line-feeds are there !!

Any idea why this happends in XP, and how to fix that.

Looks like this in XP (one long line with "pipes"):

Connecting to: ReadSoft FTP server||Connection Established||220 ftp1
Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).||Connected to: ReadSoft FTP
server||USER ephormaosno||331 Password required for ephormaosno.

But it should have looked like this (real CR LF between lines):

Connecting to: ReadSoft FTP server
Connection Established
220 ftp1 Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).
Connected to: ReadSoft FTP server
USER ephormaosno
331 Password required for ephormaosno.

 

[Tom]

Try first copying it to notepad and then from there copy it to your
application.. sometime there are control characters..

Tom

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Tom skrev:

Try first copying it to notepad and then from there copy it to your
application.. sometime there are control characters..

It look OK when I copy it somewhere else. But the problem is that ist
hard to see what is happening at the FTP server when the whole log is
on line in the log-windows. Uasually all messages from the FTP server
is shown here. Now all but the first 3-4 is outside the right edge

Seems to me (as this happends in more applications) that XP has some
"feature" that covert CR and LF chars to "|" for some stupid reason!

 

[Tom]

Ya there is something weird there.. but as I said, if you highlight and copy
it to clipboard it also copies the control(hidden characters too). MS
doesn't insert them.

so a workaround is copy to notepad first, copy it again and then to your
application

don't know any reason that windows would insert a | into it.. never seen
that before, has to be specific to that application.. I can't recall FTP
Explorer to be honest, used it some time ago.. I use SmartFTP and its free.

Tom

 

[Alex Nichol]

I use this great program... But on WinXP the log display windows look
weird. Instead of new-line between lines I get to pipes (|). Also have
this problem in some other programs. If I copy the text and paste it
anywhere then the line-feeds are there !!

Any idea why this happends in XP, and how to fix that.

It doesn't happen to me: All I can think of is that you have some font
that is in common use by these programs and that you have one that is
using the wrong code page.

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Alex Nichol skrev:

It doesn't happen to me: All I can think of is that you have some font
that is in common use by these programs and that you have one that is
using the wrong code page.

Anyway to check what font is used for the log-windows in FTP Explorer?
I could then copy that font from another (non XP computer).
Or where would I see settings that could affect the CR LF ?

 

[Alex Nichol]

Anyway to check what font is used for the log-windows in FTP Explorer?
I could then copy that font from another (non XP computer).
Or where would I see settings that could affect the CR LF ?

I think it is a matter of code page rather than font. You will
presumably be running a Scandinavian regional setting, and it will be
setting the CP accordingly; FTPX is probably assuming the US standard CP
437. To test if this is correct, try going to regional and language
settings and switching, for the test, to United States. I remember a
similar problem with the | pipe character in earlier Windows DOS
windows, when using the UK settings. If that test does it you *might*
be able to fix with the old DOS Style command
MODE CON: CP SELECT=437
put into windows\system32\autoexec.nt
so as to run when FTPX (which IRC is still a 16 bit program) gets loaded

but that is rather a guess