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From: tavicol@mail.rmplc.co.uk (Tavistock College)
Subject: Re: Help me with my apple!
Date: 1997/07/02
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hello
In article <33B90E1A.1C12@freent.toronto.on.ca>, cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca says...
>
>In article <9706302307.23cx@darkside.demon.co.uk>, Edward Farrow
><wildwing@darkside.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> In a message of 19 Jun 97 Veronica Karlsson wrote to All:
>> 
>>  VK> What in this apple is not "standard ascii"?
>>  VK>           ,~_~,._
>>  VK>           /'`'`'
>>  VK>     ,d88b.d88b,
>>  VK>     88888888888
>>  VK>     d888888888b
>>  VK>     `d8888888b'
>>  VK>       `d8^8b'
>>  VK> Lets see if I can find what you are referring to
>> 
>> Nice apple btw.
>> 
>>  VK> Ascii table:
>>  VK>      |  0 NUL|  1 SOH|  2 STX|  3 ETX|  4 EOT|  5 ENQ|  6 ACK|  7 BEL|
>>  VK>      |  8 BS |  9 HT | 10 NL | 11 VT | 12 NP | 13 CR | 14 SO | 15 SI |
>>  VK>      | 16 DLE| 17 DC1| 18 DC2| 19 DC3| 20 DC4| 21 NAK| 22 SYN| 23 ETB|
>>  VK>      | 24 CAN| 25 EM | 26 SUB| 27 ESC| 28 FS | 29 GS | 30 RS | 31 US |
>>  VK>      | 32 SP | 33  ! | 34  " | 35  # | 36  $ | 37  % | 38  & | 39  ' |
>>  VK>      | 40  ( | 41  ) | 42  * | 43  + | 44  , | 45  - | 46  . | 47  / |
>>  VK>      | 48  0 | 49  1 | 50  2 | 51  3 | 52  4 | 53  5 | 54  6 | 55  7 |
>>  VK>      | 56  8 | 57  9 | 58  : | 59  ; | 60  < | 61  = | 62  > | 63  ? |
>>  VK>      | 64  @ | 65  A | 66  B | 67  C | 68  D | 69  E | 70  F | 71  G |
>>  VK>      | 72  H | 73  I | 74  J | 75  K | 76  L | 77  M | 78  N | 79  O |
>>  VK>      | 80  P | 81  Q | 82  R | 83  S | 84  T | 85  U | 86  V | 87  W |
>>  VK>      | 88  X | 89  Y | 90  Z | 91  [ | 92  \ | 93  ] | 94  ^ | 95  _ |
>>  VK>      | 96  ` | 97  a | 98  b | 99  c |100  d |101  e |102  f |103  g |
>>  VK>      |104  h |105  i |106  j |107  k |108  l |109  m |110  n |111  o |
>>  VK>      |112  p |113  q |114  r |115  s |116  t |117  u |118  v |119  w |
>>  VK>      |120  x |121  y |122  z |123  { |124  | |125  } |126  ~ |127 DEL|
>> 
>> You're missing 128-255 I have some of them on a table, do you want it?
>
>Sigh.  128-255 are NOT STANDARD ascii characters.
>
>Ummm.  If you had read Colin's "ASCII ART FAQ (Jorn Barger)" that comes
>into this newsgroup at least once a month, you would have seen
>
>
>: *************************
>:  The ASCII character set
>: *************************
>:
>: The American Standard Code for Information Interchange supplies a
>: character-assignment for each number from zero to 127 (7F in
>: hexadecimal).  As I understand it, Internet protocols are optimized
>: for this seven-bit range--if you're trying to ftp an eight-bit-wide
>: file, you have to specially request 'binary' transmission.  (So the
>: opposite of binary, here, is *ASCII*.)
>:
>: Only the numbers from 32 to 126 (20 to 7E hex) are defined as
>: *printable* characters (the others are defined as control codes):
>
>
>Or if you thought that was too time consuming, you could have read the
>shorter "WARNING: Control Codes" that Colin also posts into this
>newsgroup at least once a month and seen
>
>:
>: Extended Character Set:
>: ----------------------
>:
>: The only Ascii characters which should be posted and used
>: in Ascii Art are:  
>:         Decimal characters   32 to 127.
>:
>: The Extended Character Set of Decimal 128 to 255 made by using the 
>: Alt key, and used for ANSI pictures, must be UUencoded before 
>: posting to the Net and should not be used in ASCII artwork pictures.
>:
>
>Incidentally, that _is_ a nice apple
>
>          ,~_~,._
>          /'`'`'
>    ,d88b.d88b, 
>    88888888888
>    d888888888b
>    `d8888888b'
>      `d8^8b'
>
>and so is this altered one.
>
>            .,=,
>           7 '"'
>      ,d$b.d$b, 
>     d$$$$$$$:$b
>     q$$$$$$.,$P
>     `q$$$$$$$p'
>       `dP^qb'
>
>And as far as I can see, none of the apples uses non-standard ascii
>characters.
>
>
>(Edward, I'm e-mailing this as well because I can't be certain that my
>server will actually post this internationally.)
>
>NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent";
>its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
>--
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>       [_____]      __>,^       llizard aka ejm
>ejm97   |   |      //| |  cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca