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00100110: BRING BOB BACK TO NORMAL   Being a SYSOP and an avid 
telecommunicator, I really appreciate a full featured telecommunications 
package like Bob Letini's BobsTerm Pro.  In fact, I cannot think of a better 
terminal emulation package.  However, amidst all of the wonder bells and 
whistles of Bobsterm Pro there is one major irritation, namely, Mr. Letini has 
created his own character sets for displaying text and other information.  I 
have found the display fonts somewhat difficult to read.  Fortunately, 
BobsTerm Pro is so comprehensive that it allows you to add your own character 
set for use inside the program.  You could use a standard character set editor 
to edit an existing font to your liking, but there are a few caveats you must 
be aware of.  First the character sets in BobsTerm Pro are in standard ASCII 
order and not PET ASCII order, and second BobsTerm uses several specially 
defined characters which display control codes and graphic borders which 
really should remain intact.  With this in mind, I have written the following 
program which creates a new character set on a BobsTerm disk which contains 
all of BobsTerm's special characters but replaces the alphabetic and numeric 
characters with ones from the C-128's normal character set.  The new character 
set can be used directly within the program itself or can serve as a basis for 
further modification through the use of a character set editor.  Programmers 
may want to note the use of location 215 (line 100) to check which display the 
user is using and the error trap in line 190.  Also, if you run this program 
using a 40 column display you will get to see the actual character set 
translation being implemented since the translation takes place on the 40 
column graphics screen.

100 IF PEEK(215)=128 THEN sc=5:ELSE sc=0
110 PRINT "place a bob's term pro disk in the drive and hit a key."
120 GETKEY a$:GRAPHIC 1,1:TRAP 190
130 BLOAD"character set.0",p11392:BSAVE"char rom2",b14,p55296 to p57344
140 BLOAD"char rom2",p8192
150 FOR i=8200 TO 8407:POKE i+3968,PEEK(i):NEXT i
160 FOR i=8712 TO 8919:POKE i+3200,PEEK(i):NEXT i
170 FOR i=8576 to 8664:POKE i+3200,PEEK(i):NEXT i
180 BSAVE"character set.7",p11392 to p13440:GRAPHIC sc,1:SCRATCH"char 
rom2":DIRECTORY:END
190 IF ds=62 THEN GRAPHIC sc,1:PRINT"w r o n g  d i s k !":SLEEP 3:GRAPHIC 
sc,1:GOTO 110
200 GRAPHIC sc,1:LIST:PRINT:PRINT"disk error:";ds$:DCLEAR