From: michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de (Michael Mauch)
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Subject: Re: Help with RHIDE
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:55:54 +0200
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On 26 Apr 1998 19:51:06 GMT, "Derek Jackson" <djackson AT dial DOT pipex DOT com>
wrote:

> The error does not appear to be code-dependant, but the problem arises when
> I enter the simple line:
> 
> a=(a|b)
[...]
> As noted by Thomas Demmer, the problem appears to be one of recognising the
> correct character from the keyboard, which is why I tried the US setting.

Ah, yes, now I see. The octal character 0335 (Alt-221) looks like the
pipe character in a DOS window here, but of course it isn't the correct
character. 

Do you perhaps have a non-standard keyboard driver instead of Win95's
keyb.com? Does `dir |more´ on the Win95 DOS command line work?

The Win95 help.com shows that you can use two different language IDs for
uk keyboards, maybe you want to try using the other one:

keyb uk,,c:\windows\command\keyboard.sys /id:166

or

keyb uk,,c:\windows\command\keyboard.sys /id:168

There's even more info in that Win95 help.com (look for it on your Win95
CD if it is not already installed on your computer).

I tried it with my (german, 105 character) keyboard here: both layouts
have two different key combinations that generate a "pipe-alike"
character - one of them emits Alt-124, one of them emits Alt-221. But
only Alt-124 is the real pipe character.

With /id:166:
                                    ScanCode ASCII   ExtScan/ASCII
                                 `  41=29h  96=60h  41=29h  96=60h
rA                               ¦  41=29h 221=DDh  41=29h 221=DDh
                                 \  86=56h  92=5Ch  86=56h  92=5Ch
lSh                              |  86=56h 124=7Ch  86=56h 124=7Ch

("rA" is the right Alt (AltGr) key, "lSh" is the left shift key)

With /id:168:
                                    ScanCode ASCII   ExtScan/ASCII
                                 \  41=29h  92=5Ch  41=29h  92=5Ch
lSh                              ¦  41=29h 221=DDh  41=29h 221=DDh
                                 |  86=56h 124=7Ch  86=56h 124=7Ch
lSh                              _  86=56h  95=5Fh  86=56h  95=5Fh


Maybe you can find the other key combination on your keyboard or use the
other "/id" for keyb.

Regards...
		Michael