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Re: Converting Graphics Characters from DOS

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From: Laura Halliday
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1989 22:36
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In article <26991@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ichiro@codon7.berkeley.edu () writes:
>Someone in my office is preparing a program on a DOS machine (don't ask
>me why!) and he'd like to transfer the listing over to a Mac for
>printing on our Laserwriter. But here's the rub: the listing includes
>DOS High Ascii characters (i.e. graphics characters) which he's using
>to draw lines indicating logical connections within the program.
>Unfortunately, the standard Mac fonts have completely different
>definitions for these ascii values.

See if you can find the font IBMKlone. It's PD, and our documentation people
swear by it. Is it in the Info-Mac archives?

...laura
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From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
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Subject: Re: Converting Graphics Characters from DOS
Keywords: IBMKlone
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