Printing Low-end Chars

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 11-26-92 (12:41)             Number: 384
From: PETER BARNEY                 Refer#: NONE
  To: MIKE KERR                     Recvd: NO  
Subj: Printing Low-end Chars         Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
 > I'm writing a program that requires me to be able to display low-end
 > ascii characters (0-31).  Unfortunately, these characters are also
 > used as control codes for line feeds, etc, as most of you know.

 > How can I display those characters without accessing the control
 > codes?

The only way I know is to poke them.

DEF SEG=&HB800
POKE 0,13       'handy-dandy carriage return
DEF SEG

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