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ALTERNATE CHARACTERS Conf: (74) fRAINBOW

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From: George A. Theall
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 1989 15:39
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Comments: Rainbow Echomail from ED RIDPATH    Read: YES

> GT> me to change the first part of that line -  "~ EZ-Reader 1.21 ~".
>
>They show up on my Rainbow as solid blocks, also.  Are you saying that

>they really ARE solid blocks, not some high-order ASCII character being

>displayed as a solid block?

They really are solid *BM blocks, but the msged/VDEC combo converts them
to the appropriate *BM style character on the Rainbow screen.

Ed


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