Re: A86: Re: _clrScrn


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Re: A86: Re: _clrScrn




$de and $ce are three dots each
there are lots of single characters that are single dots. (sorta)
$2e (period), $d0, $ea, $ed and above

although i'm not sure if that's important to the original question

-josh

On Sun, 8 Nov 1998 22:27:55 -0500 "Dux Gregis" <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
writes:
>
>Of course that's printable ... but that's not the point: you don't 
>have any
>characters printing three dots to the screen, so obviously his problem 
>lies
>somewhere else.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>Not always... char 0 (eof, null-term) is a blank space (i guess that 
>it
>>could be considered, but it is not printable, that is for sure..
>>
>>
>>-Chuck
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Dux Gregis wrote:
>>
>>%
>>%What do you mean?  There's no such thing as unprintable byte; every 
>byte
>has
>>%an ascii char associated with it.
>>%
>>%
>>%>
>>%>I intentionally used unprintable bytes so that they could not be
>>%>confused with anything already in _textShadow.
>>%>
>>%>>_textShadow shadows text, so if text shadow wasn't cleared by 
>_clrScrn,
>>%you
>>%>> would see text, not black dots.  Who knows what the dots are 
>from
>>%>>
>>%
>>
>>
>>--------------------------------------------------------------
>>Chuck Mason               || "The world is full of
>>chuckjr@sundial.net                   ||  painted pictures
>>------------------------------------- ||  which yet to have
>>semu - http://emu.simplenet.com/semu/ ||  its 1000 words."--Me
>>==============================================================
>>
>
>

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