To: crough45 AT amc DOT de
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:47:43 -0700
Subject: Re: or symbol
Message-ID: <19970919.104753.8798.0.bshadwick@juno.com>
References: <97Sep19.160543gmt+0100 DOT 11653 AT internet01 DOT amc DOT de>
From: bshadwick AT juno DOT com (Ben N Shadwick)
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:10:22 +0100 Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
writes:
>Ben Shadwick wrote:
>
>> Hold down the SHIFT key and hit the backslash ('\') key. 
>
>Usually, on US/UK keyboards.  However, some keyboards have 
>them in all sorts of strange places.  On at least one German
>keyboard it's ALT plus the key with < and > on it.

Yes I didn't think of that. Thanks. Of course, since the poster didn't
say which type of keyboard he was using, it was still probably a good
idea to post it along with everyone else's post for other types of
keyboards anyways.

>If you're a Unix boff, yes.  Like most ASCII characters, 
>however, they have lots of names - "or symbol" (or just 
>'or'), "vertical bar" or 'bar', "broken bar" (from the 
>representation on many printers and terminals with a gap
>in the middle), etc.  There is no one correct name.

It's called that on IBM PC platforms as well, although people sometimes
refer to it by the other names you mentioned, usually depending on the
context in which the character itself is used.

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Ben Shadwick, Sysop, Mars Base BBS, (360)882-0773, Vancouver, WA, USA