From: wagray AT taz DOT dra DOT hmg DOT gb (Walter Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.dos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Non Existant dos pipes - SOLUTION!
Date: 24 Sep 1999 16:51:45 GMT
Organization: Defence Research Agency
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In article <37e9e4a0 DOT 0 AT news DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de>, manfred DOT heumann AT uni-bielefeld DOT de (Manni Heumann) writes:
 :In article <9HR63$ABD AT c400>, aw AT mail1 DOT bet1 DOT puv DOT fi wrote:
 :>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).
 :>
 :
 :I'm curious: Is there any special meaning in the UK for a vertical broken bar? 
 :Can you find it on typewriters? What's the big semantic difference to a 
 :vertical unbroken bar?


No meaning that I know of. All my UK keyboards give a solid bar
when you hit the broken bar. When you hit the solid bar (top
left on kbd) it gives a logicalNOT symbol.

I always thought the broken bar was an IBM thing. I had never
seen one before I started using PCs.

Walter

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