Re: Saving FE as FE

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

Strange that they switched the roles of 253 and 254 between Xy3 and Xy4.

254 is currently hard-coded as an exception in my program; generalizing
the program to allow more than one byte on the left of a substitution
seems too much work at this point.


In working with the substitutions, I had learned a bit about the way
that Xy handles various characters, but your CTRLCHAR.TXT document is
highly illuminating---thanks!


Martin

Robert Holmgren wrote:


** Reply to message from "Martin J. Osborne"
 on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:50:06 -0400

in Xy3, if you enter ASCII 254, that's
exactly what you get in the file---a 1-byte 254.


Yes, you're right; I was thinking that 254 controlled the screen
display in Xy3, but actually it was 253 -- 254 was a normal char
(in Xy4, 253 is normal, and 254 is a control char -- the
opposite -- hey, it's been 15 years since I wrote anything in
Xy3). Anyway, does your external substitution prog accept more
than one byte on the left (source$) side?


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