ORIGINAL: scout1
ORIGINAL: scout1
On second thought, if it were a language thing and the devil was built in when I edited the bat file to add my password, wouldn't that carry over to someone else trying to excute it (given I provided the entire directory structure) ? In other words, if I create the sub-directory and edit the bat file and then send it and the save game file to someone else, if it were a language thingy, wouldn't they also get hit with it ? Or is it limited to my system interpreting a given file structure ? If that is the case, then I should be able to open a witpdecoder game save provided by someone else... true ?
Of course, you realize how silly I'll feel when it turns out that there was something really basic that I did wrong and nobody thought about asking the obvious question .....[8|]
ANy of the more learned computer types want to weigh in and tell me that/or why I'm wrong with the above ....
I'm on a mission, and I aim to use this tool for my pbem game .......[:@]
Sorry, not a learned computer type but trying to do my best with what I've picked up. [:)]
Language encoding should be applied on a 'per-file' basis. This means you could have separate instances of the same file saved, one using Korean encoding conventions (2 bytes per character) and the other U.S. English encoding (1 byte per character). The steps you've taken should have got the witpdecoder.bat file into the right format.
The fact you had Korean language installed on at least one of your computers seems the most promising avenue to explore, given East Asian languages' need to process keyboard input into a double byte character set. This prompts a few suggestions.
1) You mentioned having 'disabled' the Korean input language. Do you actually need it at all? If not, better to remove it rather than just disable it - this may help to simplify finding a solution.
2) Check whether your witpdecoder.bat file has been correctly saved in ANSI format (which should be correct, assuming the WitP Decoder software is expecting to receive commands in this format). Depending on length of your password, the supplied witpdecoder.bat file in ANSI format should be about 140 bytes in size. If in the (probably inappropriate) Unicode format, it will be double that size (about 280 bytes). Check the file size by right-clicking it in a file explorer and selecting 'Properties', and looking at the 'Size' value (
not the 'Size on disk' value).
3) You mentioned having the software on 2 computers. Did both of them have Korean language installed? If that language was only installed on one of them, do you get any different result by running the WitP Decoder software on the one without the Korean language, using a witpdecoder.bat file you are confident is in ANSI format?
4) If you are confident you have got the computer running with no advanced text service support, and with U.S. English as your input language, a re-install of the WitP Decoder software may be worthwhile, because the SWT components it includes probably detect your computer's keyboard input mode when they are installed. You might have fooled the SWT software into thinking that it was going to run in a 'Korean' input environment when you installed it.
Getting difficult to see what other useful suggestions might be made, but as before, HTH...
