Re: Apple IIe and control characters in file names

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <84oq4l$1ae0$1@node17.cwnet.frontiernet.net>, "David Boyer"
<david@bvu.edu> wrote:

> As I recall on the IIe, you can use control characters in a filename which
> aren't visible but are part of the filename. You can, however, run a program
> which causes the IIe to display the control characters as inverse
> characters.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this?
> 
> I saved my HighSchool BASIC project on a floppy in the 80's using control
> characters in the filename. I just got a IIe, and now I'd like to open the
> project for nostalgic reasons. It seems like the program we used to use to
> display the control characters was only a couple lines long, but it's been
> 14 years ago!!

I remember seeing a program that did this in a book. Look for something
like Subroutines and Secrets or What They Didn't Want You To Know.

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