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From: manfred DOT heumann AT uni-bielefeld DOT de (Manni Heumann)
Subject: Re: Non Existant dos pipes - SOLUTION!
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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?


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Manni