X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,155aaefd4deb793f X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Prudence" Subject: Re: Could someone help me please!: ALT.ASCII-ART Date: 1999/05/21 Message-ID: <7i4u42$cbh$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 480727221 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01bea3be$fb100f40$3d010180@ISDSP61.SCCOAST.NET> <19990521184004.17404.00003241@ng-fe1.aol.com> X-Priority: 3 Followup-To: alt.ascii-art Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com X-Trace: lnN+hGXAYvUj52jv32jYo6BYGmIGSS+20wwW7lBQPag= X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 May 1999 00:35:14 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art hi Jim.. you are referring to a symbol which is multilingual character set..can be found in the MSDN OnLine Library..info and a list of some are on this website and it was exactly how you described it-looks like the first one #1....can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theURL=/library/devprods/vs6/vc+ +/vclang/_pluslang_ascii_multilingual_codes.htmAlso i seem to recall that you can change your format in word to another character set in another format such as some european character set..i dont have word loaded on this puter to check that or if my recollection is correct. good luck to you. Prudence *with a smile* Lester5374 wrote in message news:19990521184004.17404.00003241@ng-fe1.aol.com... > >Subject: Could someone help me please! > >From: "Jim" > >Date: 5/21/99 3:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time > >Message-id: <01bea3be$fb100f40$3d010180@ISDSP61.SCCOAST.NET> > > > >I have a delima. I am a PC technician in a hospital and I have to FDISK a > >hard drive and someone has used ASCII characters in the Volume Label. I > >have downloaded the Extended ASCII Character set where I must use the Alt > >key plus the decimal number to get the ASCII character. The values that I > >have range from 128 to 255. > > > >I am trying to find the ASCII decimal value that emulates what looks like a > >playing card. There is a border and at the top within the border there are > >two dots and beneath the two dots there is a heart. If anyone could send > >me a text file with the decimal set and the character that appears on the > >screen I would greatly appreciate it. > > Hmm, that doesn't sound like any of the extended characters and I'm > looking at a list now, but can you put carrage returns in a volume label to > create a small ASCII pic? If so, it sounds like it's _ " and alt plus 3 stacked > over each other. But then that could be wrong; is the volume label more than > one line tall? > Could the binary information have been changed for one ASCII character on > that machine? I know I could do that with my old Commodore, then again, the > Commodore didn't have a hard drive. Just a thought. (I have no idea how to do > it on a PC though, just giving you ideas). > -- > .-~~-. > (_^..^_) > ||||AMC > *Mythos Online : Lovecraftian Horror - Dead Alice* > http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/redlion/157/deadal.htm > *Yahoo! Clubs horror movie fanatix* > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/horrormoviefanatix