Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:53:05 +0000 To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net From: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 In-Reply-To: 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 03:04:46, wrote: >Please tell me you're joking about using the | symbol! That is >the DOS pipe. Don't you use pipes? The ` key is used by 4DOS >for quoting aliases, etc... Also it is a valid filename char. >The M symbol that you used doesn't appear on american keyboards >also. It does however display on my screen. The AltGr does NOT give a pipe symbol. Oddly though, on trying it, you can't press this combination under=20 Win95. It just beeps at me.... Obviously, M$ don't want the brits=20 playing with un-authorised keys... What 'M' symbol? It was a '=AC' symbol. (Char 171) You don't have that? = =20 Why on Earth not. Who could get by without it? :) What do you have under the Esc key? --=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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------