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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: The A1200 is an CBM upgrade module!)
- Message-ID: <36790@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 18:10:47 GMT
- References: <68700@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov1.182827.10009@sol.cs.wmich.edu> <1992Nov03.003727.8277@microsoft.com> <1992Nov3.125239.14855@city.cs> <fgd3.02pb@nifty.UUCP>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <fgd3.02pb@nifty.UUCP> fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov3.125239.14855@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
- > >>>DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
- > >>>>P.S. Of Course you all realize that if the 399 price becomes $399 in the
- > > ^
- > > |
- > >Hey! For the first time ever I have seen a pound sign on my Sun
- > >screen. How did you manage this? Everyone else uses # or `pounds'.
- >
- > On the Amiga ALT-L (or ALT-l) produces "" but I always figured it
- > wouldn't survive transmission by uucp. Now I'm curious. "" isn't in my
- > table of ASCII characters and I thought the high-order bit didn't survive
- > its handling by the network. "" is 0xa3 (10100011), definitely an 8-bit
- > value.
-
- I hate to add confusion, but a few days back I saw a message that contained
- the backslash-pound sequence "\pound". I wonder if the person who saw the
- British pound sign was using a news reader that knew how to interpret such
- escapes...
-
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