net@uwmacc.UUCP (jeff kesselman) (06/25/86)
I hooked up my Amiga to my VT 100 and by playing with the parity/8th bit
suceed in proving that my AmigaBasic program ignores anything with the
8th bit set true. This maybe because the only way to read data in character
by character (at least that I've found) is the input$() command, which on
the amiga, which has a 7 bit chracter set, seems to ignore anything higher
than 127. DUmb! Allright, any bright solutions out there?
Jeff Kesselman
ihnp4!uwvax!maccunix!net
P.S. Microsoft: If you can WRITE characters larger than ascii 127 with chr$()
you aught to be able to read them back. How about fixing in the fabled
next release??