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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
- Message-ID: <9224413.21289@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@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> <1992Aug30.221816.10863@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:50:22 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- bri@pegasus.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom) 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...)
- >
- >Real programmer would realize that you can enter any charater 0-255
- >in dos with an alt-keypad combination...
-
- Look, we've already said this TWICE!
- I'll say it again...
-
- "copy con program.exe" and alt-keypad DON'T work for ALT-0, ALT-3, or ALT-26.
-
- --
- Fergus Henderson fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
- This .signature virus is a self-referential statement that is true - but
- you will only be able to consistently believe it if you copy it to your own
- .signature file!
-