jmc@wuphys.UUCP (02/19/86)
I need help. I have a C64 at home which is being
used as a terminal; but it has no special character
keys e.g. `|', ``', `@', etc.
My plan was to define these keys by setting a
variable equal to them (e.g. set pipe=|).
But naively doing so fails; unix recognizes it as
the symbol `|' but not as a pipe. Someone told me to
try using the ascii values. My question to you people
out there is how does one reference the ascii value?
I know that ascii for <BELL> is 07 but how do I tell
the machine I mean ascii 07 and not the number 07?
Maybe this is the wrong way to go about it. If
anyone has a better suggestion please mail it to me.
Jimmy Chen
ihnp4!wuphys!jmc
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him a job painting those big X's on the street.gast@ucla-cs.UUCP (02/26/86)
In article <413@wuphys.UUCP> jmc@wuphys.UUCP writes: > > but it has no special character >keys e.g. `|', ``', `@', etc. > > My plan was to define these keys by setting a >variable equal to them (e.g. set pipe=|). >But naively doing so fails; unix recognizes it as >the symbol `|' but not as a pipe. In the Bourne shell this is easy: eval comd1 $pipe comd2 David Gast