CompuServe Messages

Here's a _weird_ one for ya. We loaded in a .AI into the Shaper, and had 3D Display on. Earlier we had tried to Merge in the shape but ran into a 512 vertex limit and didn't feel like editing 3DS.SET just for this one thing, so we Loaded it in since we'd already pretty much finished with the other stuff in the Shaper. When we quit 3DS after doing this, we got this message at the top of an otherwise blank text screen (note: to properly view the garbage characters you need to read this message using DOSCIM or another DOS reader, not from WINCIM or NavCis. In other words, it needs to be read with Code Page 437 active. Alternatively, you can view it in a Windows editor that allows you to change the font, provided you use the Terminal font or some other OEM [as opposed to ANSI] font): Right after the "O" is an EIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIuuu ASCII 29 which looks like a o horizontal 2-headed arrow. o HEAPMGMT – heap error #: dO I <AA Right after the "I" is an o Cheap stack dump linked in => no dump. ASCII 28 which looks like a o Aborting… vertically-flipped "C". (I o doubt even the new CIS can o C:\3DS4>_ handle ConTRoL characters o within a message!) : In the immortal words of Dr. Samuel Beckett, "Oboy…"!