Message-ID: <4UsbKOABEDFzEwrY@darkblak.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:48:01 +0000 To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net From: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 In-Reply-To: <856916155.725210.0@abwillms.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian 'DrDebug' Day | Email: Ian AT darkblak DOT demon DOT co DOT uk Dark Black Software Ltd. | WWW: http://www.darkblak.demon.co.uk The Home of MrDebug | Dark Knight BBS & Fax: +44 (0)1480 471465 (THE Clipper debugger) | Tel: +44 (0)1480 403104 ---------------------------------------------------------------------