Subj : Re: High ASCII characters
To   : Ed Vance
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Sun Mar 25 2018 09:58 am

In a message on 03-24-18 Ed Vance said to Daryl Stout:

Hi Ed,

 EV>When I type Alt 219 here, I see #  a Solid Block Character.
 EV>When I type Alt 176 here, I see #  a Dotted Block Character.

EV> I opened Notepad and tried entering a Alt Number and saw nothing
EV> show up on the screen as You said it would.

Of course not, because the character table in Windows is completely
different. The codes are 4-digit and not the same as in high-ASCII.

You can find the Windows character code table in many Windows manuals.
I recall that at least an old Word manual has the table. Probably some
other manuals too.

EV> I quit using SLMR when I learned that MM showed ALL of the lines in
EV> long BBS messages.

EV> Does OLX end messages as SLMR does?

I have used all of the ones mentioned above and many more.

EV> Didn't both Programs come from the same Company.

I don't think they did but I may be wrong.

EV> Otherwise I'm happy using MM, I occasionally use MM WIN when I want
EV> to C&P some text into a message that I'm writing.

I have MM for OS/2 as a reserve QWK-program and IF I put some of my
Windows laptops to read/write Fido QWK packets, I'll install MMWin in it

EV> I've tried the Sempoint reader for awhile, but went back to using MM
EV> (and SLMR occasionally) to read messages in .QWK packets.

That's one I have never tried because it came out so late that I had
already done my choice for DOS and moved over to OS/2.

EV> ... Death, Taxes, MS upgrades.

True, hi!


CU AGN, Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger


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