Re: A86: Re: _clrScrn

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: _clrScrn
From: "Dux Gregis" <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 22:27:55 -0500
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Of course that's printable ... but that's not the point: you don't have any
characters printing three dots to the screen, so obviously his problem lies
somewhere else.



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>Not always... char 0 (eof, null-term) is a blank space (i guess that it
>could be considered, but it is not printable, that is for sure..
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>-Chuck
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>On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Dux Gregis wrote:
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>%
>%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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