Re: A86: Re: _clrScrn

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: _clrScrn
From: "David Phillips" <electrum@tfs.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 20:07:52 -0600
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Actually, $D6 prints a new line and a colon, instead of just a character,
making it more of a control character than a printable.  But everything else
has a single character associated with it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dux Gregis <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: A86: Re: _clrScrn


>
>What do you mean?  There's no such thing as unprintable byte; every byte
has
>an ascii char associated with it.
>
>
>>
>>I intentionally used unprintable bytes so that they could not be
>>confused with anything already in _textShadow.
>>
>>>_textShadow shadows text, so if text shadow wasn't cleared by _clrScrn,
>you
>>> would see text, not black dots.  Who knows what the dots are from
>>>

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