From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 22:12:59 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca To: "Alaric B. Williams" cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 In-Reply-To: <857078894.54411.0@abwillms.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, 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-\. > > > > > > 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! >=20 > > 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... >=20 > I was only suggesting the silly =AC. There's got to be /some/ use for > the bloody thing. I know full well about pipes and quoting :-) >=20 > > 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. >=20 > An M symbol? You see it as an M-like thing? Wow! It shows up as a small capital M on my screen. It could be because I'm using the Cyrillic 8x8 font on the 80x50 screen in Linux though. I'm not russian, I just like the way that the lower 128 characters look with that font. The upper characters are all funky russian letters. I suspect that the "M" is a currency symbol or something else in russian. > Still, if it's not on US keyboards, it's a dodo as far as using it > for anything goes... What is the decimal ascii code for that key? Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca EMACS: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift :o)