> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:58:02 +0100
> From: Steven Swann <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Hello all,
> Can any one tell me what the following lines in my autoexec.bat file mean?
>
> mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
> mode con codepage select=850
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Swann.
It comes from Windows (or DOS under it). Check out the MODE and CHCP
(CHange Code Page) commands in a good DOS manual for a listing (and a
proof sheet for each code page). This changes the way each binary code
is displayed/printed. 437 (US-ASCII) has dollar sign and cent sign. 850
(UK) has dollar sign, but a different cent sign. 863 has French-Canadian
accents. 860 Portugese. 865 Nordic. There are others.
Depending on which code page you have running at the moment, you may see
something different when you type <Alt>+<the decimal equivalent of the binary
code (range 0 to 255 decimal)>. For example:
Code Page UK/Multilingual US-ASCII Hexadecimal Decimal Binary
850 437
Symbol dollar sign dollar sign 24 36 0011 0110
o + / cent sign 9B 155 1001 1011
librum sign librum sign 9C 156 1001 1100
O + / yen sign 9D 157 1001 1101
cent sign - + " BD 189 1011 1101
Boyd Ramsay
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