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from: Alan Clifford
date: 1996-05-10 22:53:12
subject: codepages

Hello All

Not really programming but I had a bit of a problem yesterday evening.  I
tried to do an "or" using || and GCC gave me a "parse
error".  Tonight I noticed that the editor wasn't highlighting the ||
properly.  So I tried the 3rd character on the key just below the Esc key
and that worked (UK keyboard).  So I quit the editor, switched to codepage
437 and tried the | key at the bottom left again.  Now it worked.

I had recently switched my codepage 850 as recommended by IBM.  

I didn't realize that codepage 850 changed the actual keys on the keyboard
and it isn't mentioned in the little codepage book that came with Warp.  I
thought it just changed some of the line drawing character codes.   

Are there any other effects that I should know about? 

Alan

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