how about an atcode for the square for reading;

@SQUARE@ Reading Mail @SQUARE@

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Re: atcode
By: The Millionaire to digital man on Sun Jul 14 2019 08:40 pm

how about an atcode for the square for reading;

@SQUARE@ Reading Mail @SQUARE@

There's already a built in translation from CP437 0xFE char to the Unicode HALFWIDTH BLACK SQUARE (U+FFED) and vice-versa. Is there some problem with that translation? The Wikipedia page did recommend using Unicode BLACK SQUARE (U+25A0) instead, but I didn't care for the way it look in the terminals I tested it.

I'm fine with adding more Unicode code point @-codes, but the others were added because there wasn't an existing 1:1 translation.

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #63:
SMB = Synchronet Message Base (e.g. smblib)
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Re: atcode
By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Sun Jul 14 2019 09:15 pm

Re: atcode
By: The Millionaire to digital man on Sun Jul 14 2019 08:40 pm

how about an atcode for the square for reading;

@SQUARE@ Reading Mail @SQUARE@

There's already a built in translation from CP437 0xFE char to the Unicode HALFWIDTH BLACK SQUARE (U+FFED) and vice-versa. Is there some problem with that translation? The Wikipedia page did recommend using Unicode BLACK SQUARE (U+25A0) instead, but I didn't care for the way it look in the terminals I tested it.

I'm fine with adding more Unicode code point @-codes, but the others were added because there wasn't an existing 1:1 translation.

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #63:
SMB = Synchronet Message Base (e.g. smblib)
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atm it's a p char in the text.dat file:
\1cp Reading Mail \1cp

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Re: atcode
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Jul 14 2019 09:20 pm

Re: atcode
By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Sun Jul 14 2019 09:15 pm

Re: atcode
By: The Millionaire to digital man on Sun Jul 14 2019 08:40 pm

how about an atcode for the square for reading;

@SQUARE@ Reading Mail @SQUARE@

There's already a built in translation from CP437 0xFE char to the Unicode HALFWIDTH BLACK SQUARE (U+FFED) and vice-versa. Is there some problem with that translation? The Wikipedia page did recommend using Unicode BLACK SQUARE (U+25A0) instead, but I didn't care for the way it look in the terminals I tested it.

I'm fine with adding more Unicode code point @-codes, but the others were added because there wasn't an existing 1:1 translation.

atm it's a p char in the text.dat file:
\1cp Reading Mail \1cp

Are you referring to this line in the text.dat?

"\r\n\1n\1cþ \1b\1hReading E-mail \1n\1cþ \1b\1h(\1w?\1b=Menu)"\ 049 ReadingMail

Those are CP437 chars (0xFE, or 254 decimal).

digital man

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Re: atcode
By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Sun Jul 14 2019 09:28 pm

Re: atcode
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Jul 14 2019 09:20 pm

Re: atcode
By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Sun Jul 14 2019 09:15 pm

Re: atcode
By: The Millionaire to digital man on Sun Jul 14 2019 08:40 pm

how about an atcode for the square for reading;

@SQUARE@ Reading Mail @SQUARE@

There's already a built in translation from CP437 0xFE char to the Unicode HALFWIDTH BLACK SQUARE (U+FFED) and vice-versa. Is there some problem with that translation? The Wikipedia page did recommend using Unicode BLACK SQUARE (U+25A0) instead, but I didn't care for the way it look in the terminals I tested it.

I'm fine with adding more Unicode code point @-codes, but the others were added because there wasn't an existing 1:1 translation.

atm it's a p char in the text.dat file:
\1cp Reading Mail \1cp

Are you referring to this line in the text.dat?

"\r\n\1n\1cþ \1b\1hReading E-mail \1n\1cþ \1b\1h(\1w?\1b=Menu)"\ 049 ReadingMail

Those are CP437 chars (0xFE, or 254 decimal).

digital man

This Is Spinal Tap quote #13:
Nigel Tufnel: You can't really dust for vomit.
Norco, CA WX: 74.3øF, 62.0% humidity, 4 mph E wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

then why was there an ellipsis code for? every computer uses the same period key for that one.

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Re: atcode
By: The Millionaire to digital man on Sun Jul 14 2019 08:40 pm

how about an atcode for the square for reading;

@SQUARE@ Reading Mail @SQUARE@

$ The Millionaire $

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Re: atcode
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Jul 14 2019 09:34 pm

Re: atcode
By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Sun Jul 14 2019 09:28 pm

Re: atcode
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Jul 14 2019 09:20 pm

Re: atcode
By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Sun Jul 14 2019 09:15 pm

Re: atcode
By: The Millionaire to digital man on Sun Jul 14 2019 08:40 pm

how about an atcode for the square for reading;

@SQUARE@ Reading Mail @SQUARE@

There's already a built in translation from CP437 0xFE char to the Unicode HALFWIDTH BLACK SQUARE (U+FFED) and vice-versa. Is there some problem with that translation? The Wikipedia page did recommend using Unicode BLACK SQUARE (U+25A0) instead, but I didn't care for the way it look in the terminals I tested it.

I'm fine with adding more Unicode code point @-codes, but the others were added because there wasn't an existing 1:1 translation.

atm it's a p char in the text.dat file:
\1cp Reading Mail \1cp

Are you referring to this line in the text.dat?

"\r\n\1n\1cþ \1b\1hReading E-mail \1n\1cþ \1b\1h(\1w?\1b=Menu)"\ 049 ReadingMail

Those are CP437 chars (0xFE, or 254 decimal).

then why was there an ellipsis code for?

Because Unicode defines a single code-point for an Ellipsis for which there is no ASCII/CP437 equivalent, so it's expanded to 3 '.''s if the terminal is not UTF-8.

every computer uses the same period key for that one.

The key used is not a factor. And not every terminal even supports the concept of an ellipsis. Your traditional ANSI-BBS terminals use IBM extended ASCII (CP437) for which there is no single ellipsis code.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #56:
Synchronet Terminal Server introduced SecureShell (SSH) support w/v3.14a (2006).
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