Subj : Re: extended character codes To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" Date : Sun Oct 12 2003 09:04 pm Those are the blob graphics characters from the DOS character set. You are not writing a DOS program. You are writing a Windows program. Those characters are not part of the character set you are using. .. Ed > Rob C wrote in message > news:3f89d986$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > > Throughout my programming I frequently use horizontal lines, > vertical lines, and right and left corner pieces. As I > understand it these are known as extended character codes. In > my old PowerC for DOS I would feed a functions they wrote, > writechs(), hexadecimal numbers - > Hbar[0] = (char) 0xCD; > Hbar[1] = '\0'; > etc... .