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to: Jean Parrot
from: Wayne Chirnside
date: 2004-02-01 09:58:00
subject: Re: Alt + numbers.

-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 JP>       Hello, Roy, it is a great day here.

 RJT> Well,  I heard of somebody making a keyboard that only had one key for
 RJT> each finger.  You'd do different characters by "chording" them,
 RJT> pushing multiple keys for any given character you wanted.

 JP>  This is possible if you use the Alt and the numerical pad. I do this
 JP>  all the time to send characters above the 128 to 256.  I use the
 JP>  decimal value this way. $ is Alt + 0036. Try it, it is addictive.

One can produce the character for ohms in that way as
well as create a directory consisting of a space.
For the latter, MD CNTRL - 255
 
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