Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/26/03:36:09
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Alaric B. Williams wrote:
> >
> > A better candidate would be then YEN symbol. :o)
>=20
> I don't know about US keyboards, but my UK device has an otherwise
> useless key to the left of the 1 digit, under Esc, which has three
> symbols on it: ` =AC and |, although to get | I push shift-\.
>=20
> Perhaps a use could be made for the =AC character? I've no idea how
> it'll come out on your machines, but on my system it's a top right
> hand corner of a single thickness ASCII box!
Please tell me you're joking about using the | symbol! That is
the DOS pipe. Don't you use pipes? The ` key is used by 4DOS
for quoting aliases, etc... Also it is a valid filename char.
The M symbol that you used doesn't appear on american keyboards
also. It does however display on my screen.
Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed.
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LINUX: What changed from 2.0.27 to 2.0.28? I don't notice anything.
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