atw: Re: Pipe Symbol or Vertical Bar?
- From: "Marcus Amann" <marcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:34:09 +1100
Yep, just the symbol. Nothing fancy.
Thanks,
Marcus Amann
Technical Publications Manager
TOWER Software
-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stuart Burnfield
Sent: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 12:19 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Pipe Symbol or Vertical Bar?
You're just talking about the | symbol, aren't you -- it doesn't
actually work as a pipe in this application?
I'd refer to it as the vertical bar and show an example in
brackets as you did for us. I would certainly have an index
entry for "pipe symbol, see vertical bar".
ObObscure Fact: the original symbol for a pipe in UNIX was
the caret ( ^ ). In fact you can still use it instead of the | symbol
in nearly all variants of the Bourne shell.
---
Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre
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