Re: Where can i download cpm

Hello, Charles!

Well, Netscape, XNews, Thunderbird come immediately to mind. At
least one of which has always been available to you during all the
time in question.

IE is provided with Win 98SE. And all the cybercafes that I know, in the
area, use it.

Since Usenet is specified for pure text use, you could also have
used CP/M satisfactorily.

Ha! My dream! To drop WinDoze, and go back to CP/M Plus...

However, I am afraid that you are forgetting that, the 18 March 2008, in the
thread "WANTED: Volunteer to Scan Old Programs", I published a grid
containing all the "Cope Page 850" characters, surrounded by "boxing
characters".

That is to say: Google Groups now uses UTF-8.

I don't know how you read Usenet, but, with Google, the standard character
set is now UTF-8 (since they need to display chars from as many countries as
possible).

(I explained how UTF-8 works in my "WS4-to-UTF-8 File Converter paper: you
will remember that it is compatible (for 8-bit values) with ASCII.)

(Finally, could you explain a little bit more what you mean by: "you could
also have used CP/M satisfactorily"? Do you have access to the Internet with
your CP/M computer?)

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Emmanuel Roche, France



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