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From: | manfred DOT heumann AT uni-bielefeld DOT de (Manni Heumann) |
Subject: | Re: Non Existant dos pipes - SOLUTION! |
References: | <37E6C190 DOT F63627C AT hotmail DOT com> <7s6idm$8k4$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> <37E6D2A3 DOT 1444E1DB AT hotmail DOT com> <37E73846 DOT 5318 AT earthlink DOT net> <37E7E2D1 DOT 629EEC8D AT hotmail DOT com> <7s8rej$hju AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de> <9HR63$ABD AT c400> |
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Date: | Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:28:03 GMT |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
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In article <9HR63$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? -- Manni
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