Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 2 Sep 1997.
4x20 alpha pager display challenge
alt.ascii-art
· 3 messages · 2 Sep 1997 - 4 Sep 1997
Are there any ascii-chars that aren't allowed on the pager? I would think there are.
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}| 32 SP | 33 ! | 34 " | 35 # | 36 $ | 37 % | 38 & | 39 ' |{
}| 40 ( | 41 ) | 42 * | 43 + | 44 , | 45 - | 46 . | 47 / |{
}| 48 0 | 49 1 | 50 2 | 51 3 | 52 4 | 53 5 | 54 6 | 55 7 |{
}| 56 8 | 57 9 | 58 : | 59 ; | 60 < | 61 = | 62 > | 63 ? |{
}| 64 @ | 65 A | 66 B | 67 C | 68 D | 69 E | 70 F | 71 G |{
}| 72 H | 73 I | 74 J | 75 K | 76 L | 77 M | 78 N | 79 O |{
}| 80 P | 81 Q | 82 R | 83 S | 84 T | 85 U | 86 V | 87 W |{
}| 88 X | 89 Y | 90 Z | 91 [ | 92 \ | 93 ] | 94 ^ | 95 _ |{
}| 96 ` | 97 a | 98 b | 99 c |100 d |101 e |102 f |103 g |{
}|104 h |105 i |106 j |107 k |108 l |109 m |110 n |111 o |{
}|112 p |113 q |114 r |115 s |116 t |117 u |118 v |119 w |{
}|120 x |121 y |122 z |123 { |124 | |125 } |126 ~ | |{
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Chris Arndt wrote:
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> I have several friends with alphanumeric pagers. The screens are 4 lines
> x 20 characters.
>
> What can some of you turn out that will fit in this format without scrolling?
>
> The max message length is 200 - 250 characters. Any multiframe 4 x 20
> efforts? (every character in a line counts up to the return).
>
> Chris
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remove ".NOSPAM" from my address to reply!
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I'm getting tired of the word Papparazzi(sp?) being
thrown about. These people are sick, moneygrabbing
jerks with cameras that can't get an honest job and
are giving a bad name to journalism, which, un-
fortunately, is part of the phrase "bad journalism."
Beats me. AFAIK, all of the standard text ones work, as well as CR and maybe LF. I doubt BELL works. Upper and lower case are OK. The font is 5 x 7 dot matrix without true descenders for g or p or whatever. What else do you want to use, and we'l figure out how to test it. Chris In article <340...@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> "Tom R. Earlywine" <Tre...@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> writes: >Are there any ascii-chars that aren't allowed on the pager? I would think there are. > > > }|---------------------------------------------------------------|{ > }| Yes, yes, yes, MUST use these: |{ > }| |{ > }| 32 SP | 33 ! | 34 " | 35 # | 36 $ | 37 % | 38 & | 39 ' |{ > }| 40 ( | 41 ) | 42 * | 43 + | 44 , | 45 - | 46 . | 47 / |{ > }| 48 0 | 49 1 | 50 2 | 51 3 | 52 4 | 53 5 | 54 6 | 55 7 |{ > }| 56 8 | 57 9 | 58 : | 59 ; | 60 < | 61 = | 62 > | 63 ? |{ > }| 64 @ | 65 A | 66 B | 67 C | 68 D | 69 E | 70 F | 71 G |{ > }| 72 H | 73 I | 74 J | 75 K | 76 L | 77 M | 78 N | 79 O |{ > }| 80 P | 81 Q | 82 R | 83 S | 84 T | 85 U | 86 V | 87 W |{ > }| 88 X | 89 Y | 90 Z | 91 [ | 92 \ | 93 ] | 94 ^ | 95 _ |{ > }| 96 ` | 97 a | 98 b | 99 c |100 d |101 e |102 f |103 g |{ > }|104 h |105 i |106 j |107 k |108 l |109 m |110 n |111 o |{ > }|112 p |113 q |114 r |115 s |116 t |117 u |118 v |119 w |{ > }|120 x |121 y |122 z |123 { |124 | |125 } |126 ~ | |{ > }|---------------------------------------------------------------|{ > > >Chris Arndt wrote: >> >> I have several friends with alphanumeric pagers. The screens are 4 lines >> x 20 characters. >> >> What can some of you turn out that will fit in this format without scrolling? >> >> The max message length is 200 - 250 characters. Any multiframe 4 x 20 >> efforts? (every character in a line counts up to the return). >> >> Chris > >-- > >____________________________________________________ > o > _ |\ __ > /t\|r\/ee\ >o \t|rr|e/ o > ------ Tom R. Earlywine > @ @ > c > \__/ >____________________________________________________ >remove ".NOSPAM" from my address to reply! >____________________________________________________ >I'm getting tired of the word Papparazzi(sp?) being >thrown about. These people are sick, moneygrabbing >jerks with cameras that can't get an honest job and >are giving a bad name to journalism, which, un- >fortunately, is part of the phrase "bad journalism."
reposting some of my old stuff:
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Chris Arndt wrote:
>
> I have several friends with alphanumeric pagers. The screens are 4 lines
> x 20 characters.
>
> What can some of you turn out that will fit in this format without scrolling?
>
> The max message length is 200 - 250 characters. Any multiframe 4 x 20
> efforts? (every character in a line counts up to the return).
>
> Chris
--
______________________________________________________________________________________________
o
_ |\ __
/t\|r\/ee\
o \t|rr|e/ o
------ Tom R. Earlywine
@ @
c
\__/
______________________________________________________________________________________________
remove ".NOSPAM" from my address to reply!
______________________________________________________________________________________________
I'm getting tired of the word Papparazzi(sp?) being thrown about. These people are sick,
moneygrabbing jerks with cameras that can't get an honest job and are giving a bad name to
journalism, which, un-fortunately, is part of the phrase "bad journalism."
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