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From: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: PDP-11 ESCape Problems with RSTS/E
Message-ID: <6929@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 13:58:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: eddie.6929
Posted: Sat Sep 19 13:58:24 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 15:49:32 EDT
References: <1158@bsu-cs.UUCP> <3320@blia.BLI.COM>
Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: PDP-11, RSTS/E, BASIC-PLUS

In article <3320@blia.BLI.COM> ted@blia.BLI.COM (Ted Marshall) writes:
>[...]
>Again, this was a long time ago, and since then, DEC has introduced multi-
>national terminals that do use the high bit, so things may have changed.

A special open MODE has been added to recent versions of RSTS/E (9.0
and later) to allow transparant output of eight-bit extended ascii
characters. I believe it is 16384, but never having used it, and not
having a manual handy, I can't guarantee that is correct.

Jeff Siegal