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Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement Toolsprites

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From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:21
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In article <1992Nov12.112100.6909@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
> 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 ?

Yes, it's the currency symbol.  I've seen old Swedish computers which
has this instead of the dollar sign.  In popular speak it is called
"sun" or "sofa pillow".


Kjetil T.
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From: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme)
Subject: Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement Toolsprites
In-Reply-To: ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk's message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:21:00 GMT
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