From: "Tonu Aas" <tonu AT ids DOT ee>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: Re: pokeb peekb
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:08:58 +0300
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> > 1) what's the shortest complete program that pokes a face (ascii 1)
> >    into the exact middle of the screen and exits to DOS ?
>
> ASCII 1 is not a graphic character.  It is an SOH control character.

??? And in some other application it means something else.
So why I cant show it on screen?

    It's stupid to not use chars 00..20h & 80..ffh only beacause in some
systems they are used for something else.

    And I think that djgpp is not the best choise to produse
smallest/fastest
program to show 01h on screen. Use asm or hexeditor for this.

Tõnu.