From:	spam AT houlden DOT f9 DOT co DOT uk (Marcus Houlden)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.dos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Non Existant dos pipes - SOLUTION!
Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:07:34 +0100
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'Twas 21 Sep 1999 22:56:51 +0200 and Hans-Bernhard Broeker hailing from 
broeker AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de inscribed <7s8rej$hju AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de> to 
tell the good people of comp.os.msdos.misc the following:

> Alex Crowther (mr_spod AT hotmail DOT com) wrote:
<snip details> 
> 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).

On my own UK keyboard I get two vertical bars. One is the | symbol which 
is a shifted \ and the other is the ¦ (Alt Gr + `). Just to make things 
more confusing, the | looks like it should be a ¦ and the ¦ looks like 
it should be a | in Courier New in Win95, and at the DOS prompt they 
display correctly. I'm sure it makes sense to someone, but I'm not sure 
who. Anyway, the correct one for pipes is the shifted \ and not the Alt 
Gr + `.
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Marcus Houlden
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