Re: Re[2]: opening ascii files

From: Peter Jacobi (pj_at_walter-graphtek.com)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 08:52:04 EST

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From a quick look at Breeze56 for DOS

> It looks like Breeze is not a text editor but rather a
> word processor:
> http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/oldfav.html
> Given its age, it is likely to be using an entirely
> proprietary encoding of these special symbols.

1. operates on text files (no formatting codes).

2. It uses normal DOS text mode, and so in effect its character coding is
the coding set in confog.sys, codepage 437 for a lot of systems.

So import as CP437

Regards,
Peter Jacobi

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