On 01-13-98 BUD JAMISON wrote to DAY BROWN... 
 
 BJ> -> I note, that we are in the vast majority. So, I wondered, if 
 BJ> -> I design a 256 character bitmap for the text mode screen for 
 BJ> -> FIDO/DOS email users, why should anyone complain? 
 BJ> 
 BJ> There ARE still people using other machines, where the 'upper' 127 
 BJ> characters do wierd things, like clearing the screen, or even 
 BJ> rebooting. 
 BJ> THAT is why there's a concensus to not use high ascii in most echos. 
Well, Bud. I spoze that is true for most. But I seem to 
be seeing more permissiveness as time goes on.  after 
all, the 'other machines' are almost all Macs, which I 
believe, can install an IBM font easily enough. After 
all, the Mac's marvelous graphic capability should, I 
would think, include that relatively trivial task. 
 
So what does that leave? Atari? that machine is not 
stuck in text mode either is it?  What other machines 
are there, and how much accomodation must the rest of 
us make for the benefit of aesthetics on such a small 
number of systems? 
 
Inasmuch as hi ascii is the choice of the moderators, 
our opinion is rather moot. So, the question rides on 
the participation of the posters, many of whom seem 
to make use of hi ascii doodles in signatures. I dare 
say that there are more posters who do this, than are 
using other machines that cannot view them. 
 
Now, if I could just figure out which of the 256 ascii 
might cause problems with mail tossers or any other 
BBS software, I could design the most efficient set 
from among the remaining. 
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