Text 16584, 61 rader
Skriven 2013-05-03 14:53:27 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.42)
  Kommentar till text 16480 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
Ärende: test uhu
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 ml> but it sure seems to me to still be "alive" today

 MK> Maybe one of those ancient alien dealies?  ;-)

maybe ;)

 MK> Sorry but I cannot find anything meaningful about IBMPC 
 MK> charmap(s), nevermind an actual map(s) that could easily settle 
 MK> the issue one way or another. 

the only thing i can go by is the old school character tables in the BIOS of
the machines...

 ml> notepad++...

 MK> I've heard of it.  I think I might have even seen it used once or 
 MK> twice somewhere in my travels but perhaps it was something else.  
 MK> I can't be positive but it does sound familiar.

when i'm on winwhatever, it is my editor of choice for plain text if i'm doing
the GUI thing... otherwise, i run the old QEdit from the DOS days...

 ml> this editor is not something that can just be used to whip up a
 ml> quick readme text file

 MK> Understood.  That is the usual case, although some can handle more
 MK> than just ibm437 or whatever the kids are calling it these days.

yes, this editor can handle such but it is built into my reader and is not a
standalone app like you might use... QEdit and vi would be similar apps but
this editor is neither one of those and cannot function outside of the
reader...

 MK> I am aware of a couple that can even dump a message to a text file
 MK> but then it still contains the messaging fields so it isn't exactly
 MK> a quick readme file but at least close to one.  I've never tried
 MK> dumping anything other than ascii with them and I don't have one
 MK> handy to check and see if it is possible.

i'm not sure i'm following you... yes, this editor can save the current message
to a text file and import them as well... the header information is nothing
major to deal with and yes, it is all plain text and human readable...

 MK> Would it matter any?  I have serious doubts about it mattering. 
 MK> vim can handle the box drawing characters but I lack quite a few of
 MK> them as far as displaying them.  It isn't all that important to me
 MK> to worry about and I know that I could turn on xorg and display
 MK> them in an xterm using xorg fonts if it was important to me.  Even
 MK> the new fangled rounded corners should be easily doable in that
 MK> enviroment.  Heck I've seen math symbols displayed in an ordinary
 MK> xterm which reminded me of ye ol' DOS version of WordPerfect's
 MK> formula edit thingy.  I had to smile when I saw that. 

 MK> Kids these days eh?

hehe, yeah! :)

)\/(ark

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