Re: Jiri, where are you?
- Posted by =?iso-8859-1?B?HAg=?= <mwfch at MWEB.CO.ZA> Feb 06, 2001
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I`m not bad Mr. Jiri ! I`m a very good person . In fact , I am one of the most liked students in my school , by the teachers I mean . I`m known for my good manners . And I am said to be one of the most mature boys in my grade . Its just that every day , I hear about 550002034 swear words , and 9943929742 sexual jokes every day . And then you think MTS is bad ! mmwwwhahahahahahahahaha ! MTS is NOTHING compared to the people at my school ! You should hear how the girls in my class talk ! They are even worse than MTS ! And 50 % of the boys in my class smoke . They think such weird words up , you`ll never be able to filter it ! Till next time , bye . Read ya later ! Ferdinand Greyling(Duke Fungus) ----- Original Message ----- From: jiri babor <jbabor at PARADISE.NET.NZ> To: <EUforum at topica.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 2:14 PM Subject: Re: Jiri, where are you? > Rolf wrote: > > >does anyone know if Jiri Barbor is still listening to this list, or > >if his private email address is still valid? I hope he's not on a > >permanent vacation now... . > > Permanent vacation? What do you mean ... dead?! Wishful thinking... > > Much earlier, almost two weeks ago he wrote: > > >I'm using your rfont.e to write all characters on screen in graphics > >mode 18. When i do, I find instead of the sign for char. 10 (block > >with circle in it) only a blank. If I write directly in text mode (3) > >into the video memory (starting from #B8000) it is visible. Is there > >any explanation for this? > > Sorry, Rolf, I was away for sixteen days, holidaying in the South > Island, avoiding people and their computers on the wild West Coast. I > came back last night, but it took me many hours to wade through about > thousand messages. Most of them from this list and - I am sorry to be > forced to say it, but it has to be said - vast majority of them were > just worthless rubbish, often mixed with deviant pubescent behavior, > or, even worse, shockingly bad lyrics from a talentless creep. Robert > promised us a moderated list under such conditions. What is he waiting > for? How deep do we have to sink before he does what is clearly his > responsibility now? I fear if he does not move reasonably promptly, he > might find himself alone here, with just MTS and a handful of > Ferdinands to keep him company... > > But back to business, Rolf. rfont treats just two characters out of > 256 differently from rest. One is zero, which is used conventionally > to reset font attributes, and the other is char 10, the newline > character. When that is encountered, linefeed and carriage return > combination is performed. Its details depend on the current line > justification. I am afraid there is currently no way to print this > character directly. But if you are desperate to do so, let me know and > I'll try to modify the include for you. > > Until then, as you always say, have a nice day! > > jiri > >