Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/27/16:54:57
On 26 Feb 97 at 3:04, mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on. wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Alaric B. Williams wrote:
>
> > >
> > > A better candidate would be then YEN symbol. :o)
> >
> > 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-\.
> >
> > 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...
I was only suggesting the silly =AC. There's got to be /some/ use for
the bloody thing. I know full well about pipes and quoting :-)
> 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.
An M symbol? You see it as an M-like thing? Wow!
Still, if it's not on US keyboards, it's a dodo as far as using it
for anything goes...
> Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mhar=
ris
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>
> LINUX: What changed from 2.0.27 to 2.0.28? I don't notice anything.
:-)
ABW
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