Subj : all for one
To   : mark lewis
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat Aug 31 2019 03:17:16

Hey mark!

Sorry that this "reply" is missing a REPLY kludge but I screwed up and 
accidently deleted your msg while attempting a new fangled cp437 conversion 
dealie.  Hopefully this msg does a better job.  :::knock on wood:::

 ml> i'm ~12 days behind right now

Not bad.  From what I've see most of fidonet is at least 2 decades out of step, 
probably closer to 3 decades.  ;-)

 ml> they can be converted but not to a single glyph

That is why I put the hex codes instead of the corresponding unicode.  So for 
"PERSON FROWNING" on a CP437 display you should see that f0 = �, 9f = �, 99 = 
�, and 8d = �, which is the infamous "loses an eye" character.  Where your 
editor got the single upside down question mark seems odd to me, especially for 
both the emoticons which are different from each other albiet both containing 
the 0x8d trailing byte, which is one of the tests.

Life is good,
Maurice

.... Don't cry for me I have vi.
--- GNU bash, version 5.0.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
 * Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001)

.