jdow wrote: > From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> It is meant to be a pipe as well. The man pages are in troff format >> and for >> some reason they used the │ to represent |. >> >> You can prove that to yourself by going to the man page and try using >> │ with >> the definitions given. You'll find it won't work....but | will. > > As to what it is you'll find it is a character with value 0xE2 in hex. > There are various ways of entering such characters in various OSs. > {^_^} Saying the value of a character doesn't have much meaning without defining its encoding. The │ character is actually 0xE29482 in UTF8 while | is 0x7c. FWIW, it is also 0xA278 in big5. :-) -- And on the eighth day God said, "O.K. Murphy. You take over."