Subj : Re: QWK Readers
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Sun Mar 25 2018 12:30 pm

In a message on 03-24-18 Daryl Stout said to Ed Vance:

Hi Daryl,

DS>   Didn't know there was a DOS version of it. But, I've got OLX set
DS> up and configured (plus registered; I don't think you can register
DS> it any more), so, I'm going to stick with it.

There's even an eight-bit DOS version of MM in addition to the OS/2,
Windows and maybe even Mac.

DS>   Notepad can not handle the high ascii characters -- like holding
DS> the ALT-key down, while you enter a number (i.e. 1 to 255), then
DS> releasing the ALT key...then the high ascii character will appear.

It can but the character codes are four digit numerical codes, not three
and not the same as for DOS and OS/2.

EV>Does OLX end messages as SLMR does?

There was in fact a standard in the early days of Fidonet that set the
length of messages to a certain number of lines.


CU L8ER, Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger


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