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From: A cohort's CoHort <cohort@******.CONNECTED.COM>
Subject: Re: Y=Nuyen
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 22:54:09 -0800
On Sun, 6 Mar 1994, Twist wrote:
> Are you talking mainframe IBM or PC?
> I've seen the yen symbol pop up on my PC a few times when I get flipped
> to graphics characters. I haven't been curious enough to look it up in
> my manuals to find how to reproduce it on purpose though.
>
The yen symbol is ascii code 157 (IBM PC Extended ASCII). The only way
to reproduce it on a pc is to hold down the "Alt" key, and type the ASCII
code, then release the "Alt" key.
And to send it, you have to ask someone else, since I cannot except in
EMACS, and I read mail in PINE.

CoHort@*********.com
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