special symbol

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 02:12:41PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> | See above.  Specifically, you need to print out 'man ascii' on that
> | printer, and see whether you get the character you want, and which one
> | it is. 
> 
> Oh?  On my OS, man ascii only reaches from 20(octal) to 176(octal),
> and adopts a "mum's the word" stance toward the so-called "high ascii"
> values.

You're right; I'm wrong.  Failing memory told me I'd seen it in Linux's
ASCII manpage.

Cheers,
-- jra
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