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From: philip@amdcad.UUCP (Philip Freidin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: ALT key with nums
Message-ID: <15183@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 13:54:17 EST
Article-I.D.: amdcad.15183
Posted: Mon Mar 16 13:54:17 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Mar-87 03:07:09 EST
Reply-To: philip@amdcad.UUCP (Philip Freidin)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California
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I have just discovered the capability of entering special codes above
127 (decimal) by holding down the alt key, and entering the decimal value
in the range 000 to 255 on the numeric key pad. This doesn't look like a
bug, so it must be a feature :-) .   Can someone please direct me to
documentation that details the names (shapes) of all the IBM standard
characters for codes 128 thru 255. 

How do I get my EPSON LQ1500 to print them. (do I need to download the font
    or can I be real sneaky and get the font out of the BIOS or EGA roms
    and somehow make them match one of the formats that the LQ1500
    understands)

please post responses, and I will sumarise by email to /dev/null

thanks in advance,             Philip Freidin



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Philip Freidin @ AMD SUNYVALE on {favorite path!amdcad!philip)
Section Manager of Product Planning for Microprogrammable Processors
(you know.... all that 2900 stuff...)
"We Plan Products; not lunches" (a quote from a group that has been standing
				 around for an hour trying to decide where
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