On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:49, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, I don't have an "Alt Gr" key on my laptop unfortunately. The <alt>
> > <shift> combination does nothing for me except what <alt> alone usually
> > does (eg. <alt> 'f' opens the 'file' menu)
>
> I know this is hardly an acceptable answer, Sascha, but it's
> what i've found so far; These are some ways to make the console
> print whatever character you need:
>
>
> Bash shell:
>
> echo -e "\number"
>
> (for example: echo -e "\141" )
>
>
> Perl:
>
> perl -e 'print "\number\n";'
>
> (i.e. perl -e 'print "\141\n";'
>
>
>
> Finally, here's a little C program I wrote that works kinda like BASIC's
> CHR function. It uses ASCII codes as an argument. So, you would just type
> "chr 97" to see a lower-cased "a".
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> char c[] = {atoi(argv[1]), '\0'};
>
> printf("%s\n", c);
>
> return EXIT_SUCCESS;
> }
>
>
> ... I'm really surprised I'm the only one with an "Alt Gr" key..
> I find myself using it all the time! (for the @ when i type e-mail, for
> example..)
>
> Damian
Me perdon, senor, pero, yo tengo una Compaq keyboard THAT HAS IT!
Although I don't use it...(US-Australian keyboard layout w/ UK/AU
overlay)
Si, estoy loco.
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