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Article #422Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement Toolsprites
From: dcw-a
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:51
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:51
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In article <1992Nov12.120228.26592@aston.ac.uk> davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis) writes: > > I now use a special character I never have used '*'. In my original letter I > used * since the character I use does not exist in unix. I did in fact > state this in the article. The character I use is the one that looks like: > > > \.-./ > | | > /`-'\ > > Well nearly anyway :-) Nothing uses that at the moment and I have never seen > a sprite in the icon sprite pool with that character in it. Anyone know what > that character is called ? > > Well, I wouldn't swear to it but I think it is called an International Monetary Symbol or something similar, and is used to signify all currency that you don't have a character for. No word of a lie. (well, I may be wrong...) Doug. (dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!yorkohm!minster!dcw-a From: dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech Subject: Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement Toolsprites Message-ID: <721651862.11241@minster.york.ac.uk> Date: 13 Nov 92 10:51:06 GMT References: <1992Nov12.112100.6909@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <1992Nov12.120228.26592@aston.ac.uk> Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England Lines: 22