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   Holger Granholm to Daryl Stout   
   Re: QWK Readers   
   25 Mar 18 12:30:00   
   
   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   
      
      
   .. My modem isn't slow, it's "baudly" challenged.   
   -- MR/2 2.30   
      
      
   --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2   
    * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228)   

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