Viewing/showing special characters/computer language - how to?

[AlienBZ]

I'm playing around with MS-Dos in a VMware Player virtual machine, I have a "for dummies" book, "DOS" and I'm looking for where this book tells me what commands to type if I'd like to see the computer language characters, such as the omega, alpha symbols, a heart symbol (on white playing-card like background), etc, but I cannot find this anywhere in this book. I even tried searching online but couldn't find anything - could you please help me?

Thanks in advance.

[gpl]

if all you wish to do is to show it, then this will do

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echo Ωopen charmap, select the character you want to use, copy it then paste it into the DOS window

[foxidrive]

You are most likely to be after the ascii table.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=ascii+character+set&btnG=Google+Search

To get an ascii character at the MSDOS prompt and in MSDOS editors then hold down ALT and type the three digit number of the ascii value on the number pad and release ALT

[AlienBZ]

I wanted these ascii codes to show up in like, several rows in white against a blue background, the way someone showed me once about 20 years ago on a Dos machine - how to I get DOS to do this?

[foxidrive]

This is a Qbasic script so save it as char.bas and run it with

qbasic /run char.bas

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COLOR 15, 1
FOR c = 1 TO 255
PRINT CHR$(c); " ";
NEXT


[Squashman]

Foxidrive,
Didn't we talk about this on dostips a few months back?
Thought I remember someone posting a Debug script that would list all the characters to the screen.

[foxidrive]

I don't recall.   Maybe debug was used to dump the character set from rom in the BIOS.