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  2. Path: sparky!uunet!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!piccolo.cit.cornell.edu!crux3!jig1
  3. From: jig1@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Julian Gorfajn)
  4. Subject: Re: box chars in text files.
  5. Message-ID: <jig1.721461104@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>
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  8. Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
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  10. Date: 11 Nov 92 05:51:44 GMT
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  13. scavanag@neumann.une.edu.au (Steven Cavanagh) writes:
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  15. >I've seen text files where box characters have been used. I'm about to write
  16. >my first program that uses box characters and I was wondering how they do it.
  17. >(note: I already KNOW how to put them on the screen, I was just wondering if
  18. >they use a special text editor or something that is easier than the roundabout
  19. >ASCII number method.
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  21. The easiest way is the old fashioned way.  I found that cedt (the editor that
  22. comes with The Clarion Professional Developer) allows you to draw ascii chars
  23. very much like the old pro-write let you (Boy, havn't used that is years)  You
  24. could always use an ansi editor that outputs code such as TheDraw.
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