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- From: ski8032@tamsun.tamu.edu (The Man Behind The Curtain)
- Subject: Re: box chars in text files.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.173905.27184@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
- References: <2455@grivel.une.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:39:05 GMT
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- Thus spake scavanag@neumann.une.edu.au (Steven Cavanagh):
- >I've seen text files where box characters have been used. I'm about to write
- >my first program that uses box characters and I was wondering how they do it.
- >(note: I already KNOW how to put them on the screen, I was just wondering if
- >they use a special text editor or something that is easier than the roundabout
- >ASCII number method.
-
- Here's a solution that I've used. I wrote a TSR which will replace
- your keystrokes with deranged equivalents whenever the Scroll Lock
- is on. One of the remappings is the numbers into box chars (in
- a somewhat reasonable way based on their location on the numeric
- keypad) which you could then type directly into your text editor.
- Unfortunately, however, many editors just don't allow direct input
- of these types of characters... if it does, then you may be in luck.
- If anyone's interested in trying it out, I'll uuencode it or make
- it available for ftp.
-
- >Steven Cavanagh | So many women-
- > | -So little charisma.
-
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- Till next time, \o/ \o/
- V \o/ V email:pinky@tamu.edu
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