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Re: Why I DIDN'T enhance the E (help!)



In article <3fiath$dm1@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
>:    Mousetext only appears when you have inversed uppercase letters
>: written incorrectly to the screen. (Usually associated with 'freetools'
>: progs written before they knew that apple would *** up the charmap).
>: Does PFS invert the screen and do everything that way.

>Define "incorrectly"! 

   Some freetools display that inversed things by masking them with
$7F and slamming that to the screen. That worked pre-mousetext, but
Apple's oddball charmap should be taken out and shot.

Nathan Mates

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