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From: grwalter@watmath.UUCP (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: true ascii
Message-ID: <1107@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 13:12:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmath.1107
Posted: Mon Jun 30 13:12:17 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jul-86 02:24:51 EDT
References: <1041@ihlpl.UUCP>
Reply-To: grwalter@watmath.UUCP (Fred Walter)
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: ascii
Summary: 

In article <1041@ihlpl.UUCP> rlneal@ihlpl.UUCP (Neal) writes:
>I believe that Commodore's ASCII is
>slightly different.  Is this correct?

Yes. In Commodore ASCII the letters "abcdef...xyz" have the
ASCII values 65, 66, 67, ..., 90, and the letters "ABD...XYZ"
have the values 193, 194, ..., 218 (ie. the values for the
lowercase letters plus 128).

In "normal" ASCII the uppercase letters "ABC...XYZ" have the
codes 65, ..., 90, and the lowercase letters "abc...xyz" have
the codes 97, ..., 122. 

All you need to do is write a routine that will convert the Commodore
ASCII to the normal ASCII, keeping in mind there may be other
characters in Commodore ASCII that don't have the normal ASCII codes.

					fred

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