£ sign in dos
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Name: John
Date: September 24, 2002 at 02:19:50 Pacific
Subject: £ sign in dosOS: Win 2000CPU/Ram: n/a |
Comment: Does anyone know how to get a pound sign "£" into a command line from a batch file?? It is output as a "ú" symbol. Microsoft is *sooo* good that they seem to use non standard character set across their own platform. Well done MS, you continue to make it difficult for us. Roll on the days of Linux.
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Response Number 1
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Name: astroraptor
Date: September 24, 2002 at 04:13:59 Pacific
Subject: £ sign in dos |
Reply: (edit)Uh no, trust me, MS products are MUCH easier to use. They release pointless updates to their OS' fine, but they release good products (Win95/98SE/2000 comes to mind). SO what's the symbol for the pound sign in MS-DOS, I'll try to get around that.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Mike Newcomb
Date: September 24, 2002 at 13:09:33 Pacific
Subject: £ sign in dos |
Reply: (edit)When I originally installed dos, at the beginning it twice required that I provide the country of operation and I input United Kingdom. I have a UK keyboard with the £ sign above the 3. When I type shift+3 the £ sign appears on the screen and goes wherever I want including batch files. I have today run some tests (using dos under w98) and if there is a £ sign in the batch file it is output to the command line as expected (both as a command and an echo(display) Good luck - keep us posted.
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Response Number 3
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Name: WWW
Date: September 25, 2002 at 08:37:32 Pacific
Subject: £ sign in dos
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Reply: (edit)Take a look at Powerload and his page on country settings. Its a good site.
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Response Number 4
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Name: browncar
Date: September 27, 2002 at 21:44:43 Pacific
Subject: £ sign in dos
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Reply: (edit)hey man ... take a look at this site.
http://www.asciitable.com/ when u r at a prompt and you need that £ symbol type.... Alt+156 for the £ symbol m8. the wonderful world of ascii. :P
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