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Subj: Re: Suffix 2 missing.
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Hi Dick and all,
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:05:00 +0000,
vk3abk%vk3bbs.#mel.vic.aus.oc@gb7cip.ampr.org wrote:
> From: VK3ABK@VK3BBS.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
> To : HELP@WW
>
> Hello all computerers.
>
> I have just read, on my screen, a bulletin from CX2SA about E=mc^2...etc.
>
> This was strange, as the 'c^2' appeared as 'c squared' in the 'normal way;
> that is with the 2 as a suffix (little two). I can't remember seeing this
> before, but it may not be unusual elsewhere.
>
> But, even stranger, when I scrolled (page up) the bulletin to read it again
> and print it, the 2 had disapeared, and only E=mc remained.
>
> Where did the 2 go?
>
> Stranger again, when I printed the bulletin direct from air, the printout
> showed the little two suffix as in the original bulletin.
>
> Somewhere in my computer 'Page Up' the 2 fell off or was caught in the top
> of the screen!
>
> There must be an explanation for this. Can anyone find it? Beats me!
>
> 73. Dick. VK3ABK.
Not much of a mystery this, I suppose the simple answer is
the computer software you are using for packet removed it.
According to my old ascii table the 'squared' symbol is
ascii code 253 and one way of entering this is by holding
down the ALT key and typing 253 on the numeric keypad to
the RHS of the keyboard so I can write
E=mc˛
and if MY packet software doesn't mess with it you will
be able to see the 'squared' symbol.
What YOU see on YOUR screen when the BBS sends you an ascii
character is down to the software you choose to use, the way
you have set it up and which font you have chosen to use.
As you can see this 'squared' symbol when the BBS first
sends you the file, and when you print direct, then your
system system must be receiving and displaying the character
correctly. As scrolling up/down involves copying things in
and out of memory it would seem likely that the software
you are using has the bug/feature of filtering or changing
the codes that are copied and stored when scrolling, probably
only codes in the range 128-255 get messed with.
There are many files recently contain this character and
hopefully all the 'squared' symbols disappear when you scroll.
It would be interesting to hear what happens to G8MNY's ascii
circuit diagrams as these make extensive use of the ascii
character codes above 127 so I wonder what you see when you
scroll these drawings up and down?? and what software you are
actually using?
--
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