TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: commo
to: DAY BROWN
from: CARL MORRIS
date: 1996-04-14 23:05:00
subject: Re: ANSI email/art/menus

DB> had been working on ANZI, an alternative ASCII set that replaces all of
DB> those weird foreign letters and junk with geometric shapes to fill in a
DB> stairstep edge of an ANSI logon, and some french curve line segments to
Remember, the IBM ASCII character set was to be a mix of three worlds, the 
forien(sp?), the math world, and the artists...  You seem to be throwing 2 of 
those worlds out just to support one of them (the exact same thing the ISO 
standard ASCII character set does... only the oposite set...   
DB> Before the fire, I had set up a macrobbs host just to try this all out.
DB> The screens did not transfer correctly, and I suspect that I musta used
DB> some of the control codes that a Host, mail tosser, or something didn't
DB> like.  Is there a list of the codes that would be verboten in email?
Yes, if you used any codes below ASCII 32, you may have problems... however, 
those codes from 128 to 255 should transfer correctly as long as you're set 
t
8 bit data...
I don't think Macrobbs does any kind of translations other than its mci codes 
or what ever they might call them .. (I haven't looked at the package much 
recently)...
Also remember that both ends must be using your modified font (I presume your 
modifying the ega/vga hardware font)...
anything else, let me know, I can be contacted directly below...
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