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- From: sflinter@cs.tcd.ie (Stephen Flinter)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.religion.computers
- Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.133953.19772@cs.tcd.ie>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:39:53 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.153559.9595@wheaton.wheaton.edu> <BtJ8xC.HuK@alsvid.une.edu.au> <1992Aug28.035239.21736@wariat.org>
- Organization: Trinity College, Dublin (Computer Science)
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- In article <1992Aug28.035239.21736@wariat.org> sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol) writes:
- >
- >Real programmers would realize that 'copy con program.exe' is impossible
- >because DOS wouldn't let you enter all values 0-255 from the keyboard
- >(at least not using ASCII...)
- >
-
- Sorry, not true! By typing ALT-xxx, where xxx is the ASCII
- code of the character required, on a PC's number keypad you
- can access all 256 characters. Admittedly not the most
- intuitive interface ever conceived, but it is possible.
- --
- //
- // Stephen Flinter sflinter@cs.tcd.ie
- // AI Lab, Computer Science
- // Trinity College Dublin
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