Jim: A couple of questions & comments on this. First of all, you say that this
is intended to put ASCII codes into a file, but it just writes them to the
screen. You indicate the user was asking how to inject them into a file. The
most obvious way I can see to do that (though certainly not the only way) is to
redirect the output, e.g.: char 247 248 > file.txt Shouldn't that be
mentioned somewhere in the documentation? For the Alt-key trick, sometimes it
is necessary to have NumLock enabled, while other times the NumLock state
doesn't matter. If just tried in VMWare Player and DOSBox-X and it works no
matter the NumLock state, while in QEMU it doesn't work at all no matter the
NumLock state. That seems to me like a bug in QEMU. I also think I remember
from a long time ago a TSR that could pop-up an ASCII table on the screen and
possibly "inject" the character into an application. It was probably available
on a now-obsolete site like SimTel or Garbo but I don't remember any more than
that. I could also just be imagining things. The text editor I normally use
has a built-in pop-up ASCII table so I don't need any kind of program like
that. Lastly, the ASCII code that is seen on the screen for characters > 127
will depend on the current Code Page. E.g., the example you used (character
248) is the degree symbol on both Code Pages 437 and 850 (probably the two most
common ones), but may not be a degree symbol on any of the other Code Pages
(I'm not sure). The next character over (character 247) is even different
between Code Pages 437 and 850. You may also want to mention something about
Code Pages in the documentation.
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