On Tuesday 26 September 2006 11:01, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > > This is a pipe | but what is this ¦ and how do you > > create it? > > In ASCII, the pipe symbol may appear as a broken vertical > line or a solid one depending upon the font used it is > x'7C'. In EBCDIC (used on IBM Mainframes) they are > separate (x'6A' and x'4F' respectively).. The broken symbol that you saw and quoted is not what I saw when I copied and posted, it was a longer solid line. I found it in the man bash page. -- Jack Gates http://www.jlgates.com http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Netiquette Guidelines
