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From: carndt@netcom.com (Chris Arndt)
Subject: Re: 4x20 alpha pager display challenge
Date: 1997/09/03
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Beats me. AFAIK, all of the standard text ones work, as well as CR and 
maybe LF. I doubt BELL works. Upper and lower case are OK. The font is 5 
x 7 dot matrix without true descenders for g or p or whatever.

What else do you want to use, and we'l figure out how to test it.

Chris

In article <340D0817.16E8D8F0@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> "Tom R. Earlywine"
<Tre10@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> writes: 

>Are there any ascii-chars that aren't allowed on the pager?  I would
think there are. 

>
>
> }|---------------------------------------------------------------|{
> }| Yes, yes, yes, MUST use these:                                |{
> }|                                                               |{
> }| 32 SP | 33  ! | 34  " | 35  # | 36  $ | 37  % | 38  & | 39  ' |{
> }| 40  ( | 41  ) | 42  * | 43  + | 44  , | 45  - | 46  . | 47  / |{
> }| 48  0 | 49  1 | 50  2 | 51  3 | 52  4 | 53  5 | 54  6 | 55  7 |{
> }| 56  8 | 57  9 | 58  : | 59  ; | 60  < | 61  = | 62  > | 63  ? |{
> }| 64  @ | 65  A | 66  B | 67  C | 68  D | 69  E | 70  F | 71  G |{
> }| 72  H | 73  I | 74  J | 75  K | 76  L | 77  M | 78  N | 79  O |{
> }| 80  P | 81  Q | 82  R | 83  S | 84  T | 85  U | 86  V | 87  W |{
> }| 88  X | 89  Y | 90  Z | 91  [ | 92  \ | 93  ] | 94  ^ | 95  _ |{
> }| 96  ` | 97  a | 98  b | 99  c |100  d |101  e |102  f |103  g |{
> }|104  h |105  i |106  j |107  k |108  l |109  m |110  n |111  o |{
> }|112  p |113  q |114  r |115  s |116  t |117  u |118  v |119  w |{
> }|120  x |121  y |122  z |123  { |124  | |125  } |126  ~ |       |{
> }|---------------------------------------------------------------|{
>
>
>Chris Arndt wrote:
>> 
>> I have several friends with alphanumeric pagers. The screens are 4 lines
>> x 20 characters.
>> 
>> What can some of you turn out that will fit in this format without scrolling?
>> 
>> The max message length is 200 - 250 characters. Any  multiframe 4 x 20
>> efforts? (every character in a line counts up to the return).
>> 
>> Chris
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