On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:39:30 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > >I would have made the same assumption as Mike that the backward slash >was the one intended, as it is of more recent vintage -- absent from >actual QWERTY typewriters and pre-8-bit digital character codes. > Not entirely. It's in very old 7-bit ASCII at x'5C'.
>... the only slash that was ever widely used by the >masses prior to the introduction of the PC to mainstream culture. > But it was widely used in ASCII and generally available in EBCDIC prior to the advent of the PC. It's so prevalent on keyboards and stable in both worlds that I'm surprised that the OP had problems finding it. Perhaps a busybody admin configured it for a shortcut: "No one ever needs that!" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
