Random observations...
Feb. 17th, 2002 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe script I wrote to fetch aerospace terminology (here, if anyone is curious) works. The same script installed on another page (not publicly accessible) does not.
This was what my client was talking about the other day. To solve this, though, will require me to see just what lies in my client's cgi-bin directory. (Initial guess is that it's an error associated with ftp'ing a DOS text file into a directory using binary mode, but that's probably wrong. Queries using Latin characters work fine and display properly.)
* * * Irina Ya. asked me to help her out with a phonetic keyboard on her new XP machine (a VAIO, BTW). [Over the years, Microsoft persists in providing support only for the "standard" Russian keyboard layout.]
After looking at the KBDRU.DLL file (which is the animal that maps the keyboard to a the standard layout), I ventured to install the KBDRUPH.DLL that I hand-modified and which works on my Windows 2000 Pro machines at home. Even though the files are of different size, their structure appears essentially the same, so I thought it was worth the risk (heck, the mod is reversible, after all).
Golly, gee, and shucks if it doesn't work. Hooray! (Surely, I must be able to parlay my skill at directly modifying DLL files into something profitable, no? :^)
* * * Finally, I feel a little like the fellow whose life felt empty once he'd finished viewing every page on the Internet. Specifically, my installed copy of Microsoft Word has informed me that I can add no more words to my personal spell-check dictionary; it's full.
"B-b-b-but," I'm thinking, "I'm not finished writing!"
Wunnerful.
Cheers...
This was what my client was talking about the other day. To solve this, though, will require me to see just what lies in my client's cgi-bin directory. (Initial guess is that it's an error associated with ftp'ing a DOS text file into a directory using binary mode, but that's probably wrong. Queries using Latin characters work fine and display properly.)
After looking at the KBDRU.DLL file (which is the animal that maps the keyboard to a the standard layout), I ventured to install the KBDRUPH.DLL that I hand-modified and which works on my Windows 2000 Pro machines at home. Even though the files are of different size, their structure appears essentially the same, so I thought it was worth the risk (heck, the mod is reversible, after all).
Golly, gee, and shucks if it doesn't work. Hooray! (Surely, I must be able to parlay my skill at directly modifying DLL files into something profitable, no? :^)
"B-b-b-but," I'm thinking, "I'm not finished writing!"
Wunnerful.
Cheers...
