Someone had emailed me to ask how to get a list of extended ASCII characters into a file on FreeDOS (the Alt key trick doesn't seem to work under a virtual machine). So I wrote a program to help them to do that.
Because this is a simple program, I've released it into the public domain. I've also posted it on Ibiblio, because I was unable to email the zip file to this person). If you need such a program, you can find it here: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/char.zip Usage is: char [n ...] (If you don't give any options, you'll get a usage statement.) So if you want to print out the degree symbol (ASCII decimal 248) you would type: char 248 (ASCII codes not in 0-255 are printed as '?' instead.) You can give multiple characters, and the program will echo them one after the other. So if you wanted to type two degree symbols, you would type: char 248 248 The program is written in C, and compiled using OpenWatcom: wcl -os -mt char.c Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
