Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/27/18:44:50
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 at 00:18:11, 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-\.
The Alt-Gr-Funny_key gives a char 179 under DOS, and a =A6 under windoze.
I generally use the ` character for my norton guide clone (popup help=20
thing) for precisely the reason that it's pretty redundant otherwise, so=20
yes, using a Shift/Alt/Ctrl whatever combination would be good.
>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!
Not quite, it's not identical. It's a char 170, whereas the top right=20
corder one is char 191.
Like you said, who knows what keys the funny US keyboards have :)
--=20
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