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to: poindexter FORTRAN
from: Digital Man
date: 2020-07-20 12:44:00
subject: Re: Weird ASCII problem?

  Re: Re: Weird ASCII problem?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Mon Jul 20 2020 07:05 am

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
 >
 >  DM> Check your terminal settings in your user defaults (D from the main
 >  DM> menu of the classic shell). Sounds like you're set for ASCII-only.
 >
 >  Weird, it was set to auto-detect ANSI, but I forced it to ANSI, then
 >  set it back to auto-detect and now it's OK. Thanks for the tip.

The issue you described was with your characters set (not sending CP437 characters) - separate from the terminal emulation (ANSI).

                                            digital man

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