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From: UD041948@NDSUVM1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Inverse characters (clarified)
Message-ID: <4307UD041948@NDSUVM1>
Date: 17 Jul 90 14:53:09 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network, Fargo, ND
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Okay, I'm sorry for not being more specific the first time, but here goes:

Me and a friend have been working on this program.  We're using an Apple
IIGS with a 45 Meg hard drive, and the program runs in 40 column mode.
We wrote a line that looks something like this:

3030 INVERSE : PRINT "Name:"

Well, it's in inverse alright, but the lowercase characters get screwed
up, and look something like "N%&!" in inverse characters (and no, they
aren't mousetext, I know what mousetext looks like).  It seems to me
that BASIC is trying to shift the character's bits (one of them, I
haven't really looked at the ascii chart to find out), but not
the right one(s).  Something may have done this earlier in the program
(the things a monster, a few thousand lines of code get run before this)
but is there a ?chr$(x) command that turns this off?  We've tried a
few, but no avail.
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