Lars wrote:
>I guess the problem (or advantage) is that DOS does not have any printer
>drivers. At least on my HP DeskJet 690C I have the opportunity to tell the
>printer which character set to use. In general, DOS use CP-437 (or 850) in
>Sweden, while e-mail usually is written using ISO-8859-1. This effectively
>means, that when I want to print out a mail in Swedish from Arachne, I have
>to change the character set using a small utility that came with the
>printer. And, to ensure I get the proper characters from DOS, I have to
>switch back afterwards.
But if we didn't get such a utility with the printer? Something more
general would probably be better. I do understand that there may be problem
with it, but most (not all) printers do "speak" the same language. Perhaps
I should as Matthias Paul instead (not on this list however) since he knows
a lot, and �,� and � are used in german as well.
>Btw, if you send a private e-mail to me or Berine, you can write in Swedish.
>And all three of us are neighbours at Tele2 :-)
Ha, I would leave this stinking ISP if I could. Atleast it worked to get
online on the second attempt this time which is better than the average,
and i had to try 8 or 9 times a few days ago. I've actually rearranged
autoexec.bat on the computer that makes the connection to count the number
of attempts and numbers of successfull connections so I can demand a more
exact refund from them. Atleast I now know what happens if I turn the power
off when doing a defragmentation of the harddrive. You see, to know when
the connection is made I wanted a small beep, and since I couldn't bother
to start a hexeditor up I used defrag to make the sound. Oh, for those who
want to know I can tell you that the entire drive got screwed up so I had
to reformat it (and figuring that out is not easy without a monitor
connected).
//Bernie
