I would like to make a menu in a dos window. To do this I need to ENTER Ansi characters such as Alt-201 into an editor to save as a file. Then use the Type file.txt to display this file in the dos window.

The problem is that when I type characters like Alt-201 into wordpad I just get accented characters and not the Ansi character I need.

How do I enter Ansi characters into Wordpad?
I need Wordpad because I need a courier font so that I can line up characters in different lines. The dos window uses uniform character widths.
Thanks
FrankClick Start> Programs> Accessories> System Tools> "Character Map"

You can find and select various extended characters in there that can create borders. You can them copy them from there, to Notepad.

ALT + 201 is this symbol: ╔

You can't save notepad files with symbols like this...

This is very puzzling. I have 2 machines and decided to try this on the second machine also.

On the first machine in wordpad when I key in Alt-201 I get I get an E with an accent on top. But I can save it and doing a Type file.txt in the dos window shows the correct character (the ╔).

On the second machine in wordpad when I key in Alt-201 I get the ╔ character, but cannot save it and get error message shown in previous post.

Knowing that the fist machine output gives me the correct result in the dos window. I will leave it at that.

Thanks a lot
FrankIn Notepad,
Goto:
Save As:
File Types: Your choices are:
ANSI
Unicode
Unicode big endian
UTF-8

I THINK the answer to the discrepancy MAY be found there.


Another thought, Try changing the font in edit.com. (It's found in the properties, not in the program.)

First make a new shortcut to Edit.
Right-Click on the Desktop - New Shortcut - Target - edit.com
then,
Right-Click on the Shortcut - Properties - Font Tab - ... see if you can get the display you want.

You can also get to a font tab by:
Right-Click on the title bar in Edit - Properties - Font Tab - ....

Let us know how it works for you.
On the machine that works (sort of), the save as choice is Ansi, the display shows E (with an accent, I think this MIGHT be the unicode equiv) but saves correctly the character Alt-201 as ╔. On this machine I can LAUNCH edit.com and shows the correct characters I want and saves them correctly as well.
I think I will use edit.com for creating these sort of files.
Frank