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- From: smokeserpent@valleynet.com (Benjamin)
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- Subject: Re: Help !! can't find keystroke for web addrs.
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 21:23:05 GMT
- Organization: nasplrex
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- In article <4i9n14$rae@news.sas.ab.ca>, guympall@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca says...
- >
- >Can any one tell the c=64 equivelent to the IBM symbol of a " S " laying
- >on its' side. This symbol is used in many web addresses and obviously I
- >can't access them. Thanks in advance for any help. Please post and reply
- >e-mail if possible.
- >
-
- You are referring to the 'tilde' character that is sometimes used over an 'n'
- in Spanish. Why it was originally put on the PC keyboard is beyond me, as it
- serves no gramatical function. If it were vertically centered, it could
- be the math symbol for approximately, but it isn't, it's at the top...(shrug)
- It is used previous to the name of a user to form the name of their
- directory on the internet server. Why? Another mystery of the great and
- powerful tilde...
-
- Anyway, the ascii code is 126
- In petascii, that is the 'pi' symbol, an almost equally irrelevent keyboard
- character, but at least on the commie, it's not a keytop char...
-
- --
- Benjamin Moos
- smokeserpent@valleynet.com
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