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Re: Another hidden message

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From: holl... The Polymath
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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The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, holl...@ttidca.tti.com)  Illegitimis non
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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
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