Re: PRINT CHR$(12)

Allen Huffman via Coco <coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/[email protected]>
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> On Oct 24, 2025, at 1:43 PM, Allen Huffman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Unrelated — I see back then I printed CHR$(12) and CHR$(14) to remote users. I wonder which computer needed the 14, back then, when standards were plentiful and different.


Ah, AI claims:

"In 1980s BASIC for Commodore computers like the Commodore 64 and VIC-20, CHR$(14) was a control code used to switch the computer's display to the lowercase/uppercase character set. This is part of the proprietary character encoding system called PETSCII, not the standard ASCII.”

Since I had moved from a VIC-20, maybe that was me thinking I had to do that to make Commodore callers see the lowercase menus?

		— A


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