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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 01:55:54 +0100
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>> 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  :)

I have noticed no strange characters on my keyboard.
Though a keyboard with dutch lay-out, or german, those are killers!!!

	Yeep