Reply to note from wbass@xxxxxxxxxxxx Fri, 2 Aug 2024 20:56:10 +0000 (UTC) > But in XyWrite 4 (only), my recollection is that byte value 0FEh > became a second trigger character Wally, The FEh|254d byte signals a printable 3-byte character in XyWrite 4's extended character set (char Nos. 256-1023), which uses the now-archaic Bitstream Speedo scalable fonts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Speedo_Fonts). The Xy4 installation includes a file called CHARSET, which lists the available characters. But the big leap forward in terms of extended Xy4 charsets came a couple of years ago, with Kari Eveli's superb vDosPlus XyWrite 4 Service Pack (https://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html). The Xy4 SP supports WYSIWYG display and printing of characters not only in DOS code pages 437 and 850, but also 774 (Baltic languages), 852 (Central European), 857 (Turkish) and 866 (Cyrillic). It's a tour de force, and an essential upgrade for Xy-DOS users who work in any of these languages. (On the shoulders of the Xy4 SP, the XyWWWeb U2 customization file supports real-time switching among all of these code pages.) If and when you decide to enter the world of 64-bit Windows, I would respectfully suggest Wengier Wu's vDosPlus as the first DOS emulator to try (http://vdosplus.org). While he was developing it, Wengier worked closely with the XyWrite user community to make it into a fast, customizable and dependable platform for XyWrite-DOS running under Windows. From my perspective, the great thing about vDosPlus is that it enables virtually seamless interoperability between Xy-DOS and the Windows operating system. Much of my work on the XyWWWeb U2 over the last eight years has been devoted to exploiting this capability. To the point where, in my own use of Xy4, there is virtually never any occasion to shell to DOS; rather, I shell directly to the vastly more capable Windows cmd.exe environment. In the process, I've harnessed the Windows scripting language AutoIt as a powerful extension of XPL. More recently, I've been using C to create Windows utilities that interoperate with XyWrite 4. ! -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx