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Subject: Re: Non Existant dos pipes - SOLUTION!
Date: 22 Sep 1999 17:29:33 GMT
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broeker AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker) wrote:
> 
> Ahhhh... now *that* rings a bell. You're from the UK, aren't you? On the
> UK keyboard mapping activated by 'keyb uk', there are *two* characters
> that look like the 'pipe' symbol used in MSDOS command lines like
> 
> 	dir | more
> 
> They should look like one vertical bar with a hole in the middle, and
> the other without that hole. One is correct, the other isn't. It's
> just a matter of discovering which is which (I don't remember which one
> is, sorry).

The true pipe symbol has ASCII code 124.  On most (but not all)
display adapters it does have a hole in the middle.

Then there's also the IBM graphic character 179.  (Text mode
programs use it to draw menus and boxes, so it should never
have any wholes in it)