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| Thread ID: 32128 | 2003-04-09 23:18:00 | How do you do the pipe? | mark c (247) | Press F1 |
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| 134705 | 2003-04-09 23:18:00 | I think that's what it's called. The vertical bar, as used for example in the 'confused' emoticon. I can't find it anywhere on my keyboard so I guess it's made with a combination of keys. Thanx in advance, mc :) |
mark c (247) | ||
| 134706 | 2003-04-09 23:24:00 | Shift backslash (\) ||||||||||||||||||||||| | Stumped Badly (348) | ||
| 134707 | 2003-04-09 23:46:00 | \\\||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||??????????????|||||||||||||||| Oh yay thanks shift backslash shift baclslash yay cheers Stumped Badly |
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| 134708 | 2003-04-10 03:55:00 | Is everyone elses pipe key on the keyboard kind of in two pieces like mine? All of my keyboards are like that and I remember a few years ago wondering where the pipe key was because of that. Why on earth is it not a straight | instead of looking like : ? |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 134709 | 2003-04-10 04:22:00 | Yes - mine is in two pieces too. | Ladybug (3129) | ||
| 134710 | 2003-04-10 04:28:00 | That's to stop people confusing it with the capital I. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 134711 | 2003-04-10 04:53:00 | Mine isn't split. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 134712 | 2003-04-10 04:57:00 | when i read the topic "how do you do the pipe" i thought you were referring to something quite different :P | tango (2697) | ||
| 134713 | 2003-04-10 04:59:00 | > That's to stop people confusing it with the capital I. :D Really :O - and here I was thinking the two vertical lines on the pipe key was meant to symbolise the command function of that symbol: The pipe command symbol sends the output of one program as input into another program. Hence the symbol of two pipes (of data) in a chain ..... B-) But I do have a vivid imagination so I could be making this up :D |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 134714 | 2003-04-10 05:03:00 | Nope. It's supposed to be a vertical bar, but keytops use sanserif, and people are easily confused. You'll notice that on the DOS screen, it appears unbroken. Anyway ... if it was a broken bar, that would symbolise a pipe broken in the middle. Not very useful. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
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