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Article #1069Re: Another hidden message
From: holl... The Polymath
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 20:14
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 20:14
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In article <15...@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> smul...@cs.strath.ac.uk (Stephen K Mulrine) writes:
}&H14A 1 The number of characters in the end-of-line
} sequence. The EOL characters followed in succeeding
} locations from &H14B to &H150. Thus there could be
} a maximum of 6 characters in an EOL sequence
}&H14B 13 CR code (normal EOL sequence)
}&H14C 10 LF code. If the printer needed a CRLF EOL sequence
} &H14A could be POKEd with 2.
}
}In fact &H14D to &H150 contained DNS<CR> so to get his initials printed at
}the end of every line a user could POKE &H14A,6.
A minor quibble: That would print his initials at the _beginning_ of
every line (_after_ the CRLF) and overprinted with the first three
characters of the line (after the final CR), assuming the printer wasn't
in auto-linefeed mode. I wonder if he ever tested it. (-:{
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!philmtl!philabs!ttidca!hollombe From: holl...@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Another hidden message Message-ID: <9284@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 23 Jan 90 20:14:31 GMT References: <1523@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> Reply-To: holl...@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 22 Posted: Tue Jan 23 21:14:31 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit