Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cuae2!ltuxa!we53!abstl!wucs!wuphys!jmc From: jmc@wuphys.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Defining special characters Message-ID: <413@wuphys.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 18:25:54 EST Article-I.D.: wuphys.413 Posted: Tue Feb 18 18:25:54 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 05:13:18 EST Organization: Physics Dept., Washington Univ. in St. Louis Lines: 26 Keywords: ascii, set 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 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 -- Oh, yeah. The signature line. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road. A: His brother-in-law was on the city council and got him a job painting those big X's on the street.