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- SOLVING SCREEN CLEAR PROBLEMS
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- Those of us who have ADM-3A or similar terminals which
- use CTL-Z as the screen clear have a problem with some
- software (like the Peachtree business software) which imbeds
- screen clear characters in the data files on disk. The CTL-
- Z is a 1A hex, which is the same as CP/M's end-of-file
- character.
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- In the past, the solution to this problem has been to re-
- write the software to use some other character in the file,
- and then converting it to the screen clear before printing.
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- I recently saw a message about this on another system
- which made me say to myself "why didn't I think of that?"
- ...simply add in the value for bit 7 as being high instead
- of low! In other words, instead of defining the screen
- clear in the program as CHR$(26), make it CHR$(154). Most
- terminals ignore the parity bit, so this is interpreted the
- same as a CHR$(26) !
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- If your terminal does not ignore the parity bit, you can
- still use this trick if you reassemble your CBIOS, adding
- ANI 7FH just ahead of the output to your console port in the
- CONOUT routine.
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- Keith Petersen, W8SDZ
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