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- From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
- Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
- Message-ID: <9224202.1536@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Aug18.153559.9595@wheaton.wheaton.edu> <BtJ8xC.HuK@alsvid.une.edu.au> <1992Aug28.035239.21736@wariat.org> <1992Aug28.133953.19772@cs.tcd.ie>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:26:27 GMT
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- sflinter@cs.tcd.ie (Stephen Flinter) writes:
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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.
-
- Sorry, not true!
- Try entering ALT-0, ALT-3, or ALT-26.
- They don't interact with "copy con ..." very well at all.
-
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