Folks - wishing all a Good New Year
Ben
The first ingredient must be a printer with a a suitable font table, in these times of
soft fonts that should be a given or tractable.
The second element is to convert to and use an MCS / multibyte character representation -
which can differentiate _ ^ and the desired arrow marks.
To do this you could:
- load the file into an editor, save it in MCS format, perform the necessary substitutions
(two global replaces)
- write a program / script to achieve the same effect, read char and convert/translate to
MCS octets.
Note. It is just possible you will find a font with the arrows in the upper 128 glyphs of
8 bit "ascii", in which case you can skip the MCS conversion.
HtH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Corti via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: 01 January 2023 13:39
To: ClassicCmp <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: Christian Corti <cc(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: How to print old files.
On Sat, 31 Dec 2022, ben wrote:
How do you print old files in ASCII 63 to modern
devices, so you keep the ?
and ? 's
and not printing _ and ^ ?
I'm scratching my head... you want to keep the question marks?
But I guess you mean the back arrow and the up arrow.
Christian