Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!hoss!greg From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ProTERM Message-ID: <1991May22.182839.5194@unlinfo.unl.edu> Date: 22 May 91 18:28:39 GMT Article-I.D.: unlinfo.1991May22.182839.5194 References: <9105181852.AA23112@apple.com> Sender: news@unlinfo.unl.edu Organization: GBBS/ACOS Sysop Support Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: hoss.unl.edu MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: >greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury, Jr.) writes: >>And dammit, ANSI doesn't have graphics. It is just the extension of the >>IBM character set, as MouseText is for the Apple II series. >I think it's understood that he's talking about IBM ANSI, even though it's >not TRUE ANSI, -it- does have graphics characters. It still stands that the IBM graphics characters are not part of ANSI. It should be possible for an IBM machine to send its 8th-bit characters without any of the abilities of ANSI. (I am often annoyed at systems that recognize this difference, but don't have the ability to say, "I'm not an IBM," and continue giving you 8th-bit garbage around menus.) >>greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu and next to a sign which says `Out of Order'." > BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm <------------send files here > pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com -- /// ____ \\\ "The major problem--one of the major problems, for there are | |/ / \ \| | several--one of the many major problems with governing \\_|\____/|_// people is of whom you get to do it, or more to the greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu point, who gets people to let them do it to them."