Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/09/24/18:14:09
In article <37e9e4a0 DOT 0 AT news DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de>, manfred DOT heumann AT uni-bielefeld DOT de (Manni Heumann) writes:
:In article <9HR63$ABD AT c400>, aw AT mail1 DOT bet1 DOT puv DOT fi wrote:
:>broeker AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker) wrote:
:>>
:>> Ahhhh... now *that* rings a bell. You're from the UK, aren't you? On the
:>> UK keyboard mapping activated by 'keyb uk', there are *two* characters
:>> that look like the 'pipe' symbol used in MSDOS command lines like
:>>
:>> dir | more
:>>
:>> They should look like one vertical bar with a hole in the middle, and
:>> the other without that hole. One is correct, the other isn't. It's
:>> just a matter of discovering which is which (I don't remember which one
:>> is, sorry).
:>
:
:I'm curious: Is there any special meaning in the UK for a vertical broken bar?
:Can you find it on typewriters? What's the big semantic difference to a
:vertical unbroken bar?
No meaning that I know of. All my UK keyboards give a solid bar
when you hit the broken bar. When you hit the solid bar (top
left on kbd) it gives a logicalNOT symbol.
I always thought the broken bar was an IBM thing. I had never
seen one before I started using PCs.
Walter
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