1. ?Bug? or ?Feature?
Dear EU users,
Today, (maybe just 1st April ?) I was downloading
some files from MS site.
I used the following .bat file :
rem begin of file.bat
graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/932.txt >932.txt
graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/936.txt >936.txt
graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/949.txt >949.txt
graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/950.txt >950.txt
rem end of fille.bat
932.txt is 361K, 936.txt is 872K, 949.txt is 1270K, 950.txt is 705K
of descriptions of the eastern code pages.
After downloading, I have noticed the 950.txt file is corrupted,
without the end, others are good.
I edit my file.bat and get :
rem begin of file.bat
rem graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/932.txt >932.txt
rem graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/936.txt >936.txt
rem graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/949.txt >949.txt
graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/950.txt >950.txt
rem end of fille.bat
I ran this corrected file.bat and got a good 950.txt (about Chinese).
But I also got 932.txt, 936.txt and 949.txt
*with 0 bytes each* instead of my good ones.
* Windows doesn't understand the *rem* command in this case, it seems to
be. *
The lines of batch:
rem graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/932.txt >932.txt
rem graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/936.txt >936.txt
rem graburl http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/949.txt >949.txt
just rewrote my good files with empty ones.
And I think, is that the *standard redirection* on Windows ? 
My Windows is 95 OSR2 Russian, but how about
NT, 2000, ME, X, XX ... ?
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
2. Re: ?Bug? or ?Feature?
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:26:48 +0400, Igor Kachan <kinz at peterlink.ru>
wrote:
Yep, see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q26281
M$ clearly have no plans to fix it. (reported in 1994) Great, innit?
Pete
3. Re: ?Bug? or ?Feature?
Thanks, Pete, for the good news.
News are really good -- a powerful feature is better
than nasty bug.
And feature is really powerful -- 40 minutes online
to reload deleted files -- plain text is much better
than just zip, no ?
1st, April, MS, Windows, qualify quality 
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
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> Îò: petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk
> Êîìó: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> Òåìà: Re: ?Bug? or ?Feature?
> Äàòà: Monday, April 01, 2002 21:43
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:26:48 +0400, Igor Kachan <kinz at peterlink.ru>
> wrote:
>
> Yep, see
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q26281
>
> M$ clearly have no plans to fix it. (reported in 1994) Great, innit?
>
> Pete
>
