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   In a message on 06-28-19 Ozz Nixon said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Good evening Ozz   
      
   Excuse me for the delayed reply but got some extra work to do.   
      
   > ON> clears screen but does not actually home cursor, that is reserved   
   > ON> for CSI H.   
      
   > For the uninformed: What does 'CSI' stand for.   
      
   ON> ESC [   
      
   ON> CSI - Control Sequence Introducer   
      
   Thanks Ozz. One command I'm missing is the possibility to center the   
   mouse pointer. My node windows are blue background and the pointer is   
   black with white edges. I have played with the idea of remaking a new   
   one but haven't come round'to'it yet.   
      
   > ON> Currently testing my CP437 to UTF8 mapping - ........   
      
   That's the extra work I had to do. Received a bulletin in UTF code and   
   had to translate the UTF codes manually to PC8 (cp437/450).   
      
   I have built-in conversion functions for Asc7/Asc8, Lat1/Asc8, Html/Asc8   
   and Mac/Asc8 both ways but when I did the programming UTF wasn't invented   
   yet.   
      
   It's not only all the umlaut character that are used in europe but also   
   various other characters like apostrophe, short and long dashes etc.   
      
   I do have a list of all characters in UTF and their decimal equivalents   
   but have still to reprogram the editor. The Asc7/Asc8 conversions will   
   be replaced with the UTF/Asc8 conversions.   
      
   ON> It makes my life sooo much easier, especially as the computer on    
   ON> certain platforms is Unicode only. So, those of us (Americans   
   ON> mainly) can still design and think IBM old school ;-p""""""   
      
   It's not only you Americans that can design in IBM old school.   
   I had to learn programming because my first machine was a Sinclair ZX81   
   with Z-80 cpu. If I wanted to make programs snappier and larger than 16   
   kb RAM allowed I had learn assembly coding because that Basic of that   
   machine was very good but limited.   
      
   After updating to a CP/M machine I started programming in TurboPascal and   
   C   
      
   ON> If you guys can help me get a VM working with OS/2, I will port the    
   ON> compiler over. I have an old VPascal, so I can use it to start the    
   ON> builds until it self-builds on OS/2.   
      
   I have avoided running any VM machine under Windows because I don't trust   
   it to run a BBS and my OS/2 machines don't need any VM's to run a BBS.   
      
   I'm extremely happy with my choice of PCBoard, from v14.5 and the the   
   updates through various versions until the v15.2 that brought OS/2 files   
   to replace many of the DOS ones.   
      
   After that I haven't looked back at the Desqview installation I had.   
      
   ON> I may even look at Serial support - or a serial -> TCP gateway   
   ON> native to the OS/2 build.   
      
   I'm investigating the VMODEM so that I can get this machine on WiFi.   
      
      
   Have a good night,   
      
   Holger   
      
      
   .. "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it."   
   -- MR/2 2.30   
      
      
      
   --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2   
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