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From: mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ALT key with nums
Message-ID: <2804@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 19:53:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 17 19:53:53 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Mar-87 02:54:20 EST
References: <15183@amdcad.UUCP> <167@eli.UUCP>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Summary: Microsoft DOS books

> In article <15183@amdcad.UUCP>, philip@amdcad.UUCP (Philip Freidin) writes:
> > 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. 
> 

Even better and less cryptic than IBM manuals are Microsoft's two
books, both by Van Wolverton, "Running MS-DOS" and "Supercharging
MS-DOS".  Latter contains extensive info on ALT key character entry
as well as other types of data entry (p. 10), as well as multiple
character sets in the appendices.  These are not manuals but well-
written (I think) texts.

(Disclaimer: No connection with Microsoft)

--Mike Volow, Psychiatry, Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center
  Durham, NC, 27712             919 383 3563
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