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From: rdong@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Roland Dong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: ASCII,ANSII,OEM -- THANKS!!
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Date: 14 Jan 91 09:17:43 GMT
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Hi!!

Thanks to EVERYONE who replied to my question about the "differences"
between OEM, ASCII, and ANSI.  Some of the replies were very helpful
(though some implied I had the I.Q. lower than my shoe size).

If any of you who answered were wondering, let me explain the question
in context now (since, obviously, I failed to before).  I was working
on a text filter which would open a window and display text according
to different formats.  The question I posed dealt with a feature of 
the filter which allowed the text to be viewed according to an OEM/ANSI 
or ASCII setting.  Because I did not implement this part of the filter
myself, I did not fully understand its meaning.  [Thus, my earlier
posting was somewhat ambiguous.]  I do, however, understand it now, 
and I would like to thank one user in particular (sorry, I don't have
your name) who had the intuition to give the information I wanted re-
gardless of the ambiguity of my question.

Thanx much,
R. Dong
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