Re: Proterm and the //E

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)]

wagnere@netcom.com (Erick Wagner) wrote:
>wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn) wrote:

>>Well, you could switch into mousetext mode, draw an inverse uppercase
>>A on the screen, and ask the user if they see a picture of an apple...

>I'd take that one step further and display the F and G characters to
>not only see if Mousetext appears but if it is the older "running man"
>symbols that were later replaced with other symbols.

Those other symbols are what I call "springboard" and "inverse return",
respectively.  The first is good for giving the lined effect of the top
bar of a window, and the second for highlighting a block of text which
has returns shown as MouseText-M in a word processor.

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