A Thank You, And A Couple Of Odd Questions

From: Pete Holland Jr. (peterg_at_uti.com)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:08:51 -0600

Hey, everybody!

First, I forgot to say thank you for the help about the C++
headers. The little information was just what I needed. I
am now writing crude programs and advancing nicely. I'm up
to basic math calculations, and just found the C++
equivalent of the FOR NEXT loop.

However, I have a couple of odd questions to ask, if I may.

1) I'm running the Bloodshed Dev-C++ IDE. I always select
the MS-DOS application. The computer I'm playing with it on
is a 120Mhz machine. But when I put the Windows startup
disc in to get the DOS prompt and try to run the resulting
programs off my hard drive, they won't do anything. They
run in a DOS window under Windows just fine. Is the startup
disc not really DOS, or is there something else keeping
these programs from running in real mode?

2) When I was first programming in BASIC all those years
ago, my machine was an IBM PCjr. At the time, I had found a
sort of trick that enabled me to insert characters from the
extended ASCII set (like the solid block or Greek letters)
into literal character strings. Time, however, has not been
kind and I don't remember how I did it. I'm not sure if I
reassigned a key or two for it or what, all I remember was
that I did it inside the quotes of a PRINT command. Is
there a way in these IDE's or in general text editors to
access the extended ASCII set as actual characters instead
of having to fool with extra commands? Any ideas?

Dobre utka,
Pete Holland Jr.

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