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by Simon Sheppard
2023-Jan-28, 4:07 pm
Forum: General Tech News, Notes and Queries
Topic: Unicode font containing all signs - does it exist?
Replies: 3
Views: 13342

Re: Unicode font containing all signs - does it exist?

Catrinity is also a good option
https://catrinity-font.de/

Code2000 always looked kinda ugly to me, I think if the standard English alphabet looks bad, then the foreign language characters are probably even worse.
by Simon Sheppard
2023-Jan-27, 1:04 pm
Forum: Windows VBScript
Topic: Making CTRL+Z for Recycle Bin only restore deleted item - and in the background
Replies: 3
Views: 14279

Re: Making CTRL+Z for Recycle Bin only restore deleted item - and in the background

Ctrl-Z is a generic undo command, so that is always going to undo any Windows Explorer action: renames, moves, additions, deletes. So you are going to need a different approach, the recycle bin might contain hundreds of items deleted over weeks or months, so you first need to identify what to restor...
by Simon Sheppard
2023-Jan-24, 8:17 pm
Forum: Meta: Site Feedback / Forum Q&A
Topic: A need for new section
Replies: 1
Views: 12431

Re: A need for new section

Good idea, I just renamed that section to be more inclusive of general Tech questions.

Thanks
by Simon Sheppard
2023-Jan-14, 4:04 pm
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: Westlake tee and other tools
Replies: 4
Views: 3134

Re: Westlake tee and other tools

I stopped hosting these last year, because there was almost zero traffic, so I think everyone with an interest in these old utilities has already downloaded them. Also they are showing their age, there are no 64 bit versions and they are unsupported. For now I have put a redirect in place to the geo...
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Dec-19, 12:26 am
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: Will all versions of Windows ignore a lone caret on the command line?
Replies: 4
Views: 10251

Re: Will all versions of Windows ignore a lone caret on the command line?

If you have a caret at the end of a line, that can have the effect of escaping the CR at the end of the line, which may have undesirable effects depending what is on the next line. It involves writing more code, but I would prefer to test for empty values and then branch to a different subroutine ac...
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Dec-19, 12:16 am
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: Read a file, output each line to a new file, preserve all characters?
Replies: 8
Views: 6359

Re: Read a file, output each line to a new file, preserve all characters?

An approach I have used is to replace all the problem characters with something else, either a character like ~ or ` use a unique phrase "Gr33nTreez"

Then do all your processing and then rename the characters back to what they started as.

https://ss64.com/vb/syntax-replace.html
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Dec-13, 11:06 pm
Forum: Windows CMD Shell
Topic: "call exit" - Exit batch file from call subroutine
Replies: 7
Views: 6017

Re: "call exit" - Exit batch file from call subroutine

Whether the host shell exits will depend a lot on how you initially call the batch file. If you are running it from the command prompt, it will generally return to that prompt. If you are running it by double clicking or running a shortcut to the batch, that generally starts a new shell which will e...
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Dec-02, 8:17 pm
Forum: General Tech News, Notes and Queries
Topic: Thunderbird in macOS - icon not displaying a count of new mail
Replies: 0
Views: 19356

Thunderbird in macOS - icon not displaying a count of new mail

This took far too long to figure out, so I'm leaving the fix here in case someone else finds it useful. In Thunderbird Settings, select the 'general' cogwheel. Scroll down to the bottom and click on 'Config Editor' search for "mail.biff" Set mail.biff.show_alert = TRUE mail.biff.use_new_co...
by Simon Sheppard
2022-Nov-24, 1:29 pm
Forum: Meta: Site Feedback / Forum Q&A
Topic: dead link
Replies: 1
Views: 11569

Re: dead link

Fixed now, thanks