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- Date: Thursday, 30 August 1984
- From: prindle at NADC
- To: All
- Re: Christensen MODEM program for Commodore-64
-
- Unfortunately, Commodore BASIC programs, of which this one is no
- exception, utilize control characters, both normal ascii ones and ones
- with the high order bit set (ie. chr$(x) where x>127), and are thus
- not amenable to storage and transfer as normal ascii files. All of
- the cursor positioning characters and reverse field characters are
- missing from MICRO:<CPM.COMMODORE>XMODEM64.BAS. Commodore BASIC
- programs must be treated (especially by XMODEM programs themselves) as
- "binary", not text, and are best transmitted as hex files. Of course,
- it is possible to write a C64 program which uses only the normal ascii
- subset, but I haven't seen one (nontrivial) yet!
-