Re: REQUESTED ASCII tables for the Windows 98 version of DOS
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
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· 3 Jun 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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On Tue, 30 May 2000 23:36:06 GMT, ppu...@damnspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk) posted: >On Mon, 29 May 2000 17:38:16 GMT, "Scaramanga" <sca...@zonnet.nl> provoked >the following text: > >>Hi there, once I had the good old DOS operating system on my PC. >>Now I got Windows 98. >> >>The problem is that I still work a lot with DOS. The version included >>in Windows 98 that is. >> >>I wondered if anyone could send me the ASCII list of this version of DOS, >>as my old list of Dos 6.2 doesn't seem to work anymore. >> >>I need it to create bullets and lines in batch files. >> >>Thank you very much !!! > >Try this in QBASIC: > >REM Skip the first 31 chars, since they only serve as control characters in DOS. >FOR N = 32 TO 256 >? chr$(n); >NEXT N > >Alternatively you can adapt the code so that it will print the whole kaboodle to >your printer. Or, for a neater table, still in QBasic, type: chr$ and with the text cursor over it, press F1. Then, select 'ASCII Character Codes' from the bottom of the online help. They even include the control characters with what they actually are in brackets :) Kind Regards, -Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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