[Coco] OS-9 windowing: What is GRP 206?

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sat Feb 7 20:20:36 EST 2015


On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 05:21:56PM -0600, Allen Huffman wrote:

> 1. What is GRP 206 (not in docs)

No clue...
> 2. Does the redundant data in stdfonts serve a purpose?
> 
[...]
> offset $889:
> 1b 2b ce 04 05 00 08 00 08 00 08 00 20 30 38 38 30 20 ff
1b 2b gpload
ce group 206
04 buf 4
05 screen type 640x192 2 color
00 08 x
00 08 y
00 08 len
00 ........
20 ..#.....
30 ..##,,,,
38 ..###...
30 ..##....
20 ..#.....
ff ########

Right arrow? Play? Actually it looks familiar (in an os9
context). Does GSHELL use that character? 

I would guess maybe multivue added group 206 for gshell's special
characters? Are these in the stock os9LII stdfonts? Multivue's
stdfonts? Or were they added later?

Willard
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