[Coco] Underscore in Filename in DECB

[CoCo Mongrel]

lfet, rghit, waht's the difference?  :)

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Robert Gault
<robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>wrote:

> CoCo Mongrel wrote:
>
>> OK doggonnit,
>>
>> I've got some files in DECB that have what I think are stand-ins for the
>> underscore character.  They appear as a right-pointing arrow [ <- (but a
>> single character)].  I can't remember how to produce this character on the
>> CoCo 3 keyboard in DECB.  You can get it with <alt><-> in TW128.  But I
>> want
>> to type this at the DECB command prompt.  A <shift><[down-arrow]> produces
>> the character on the screen, but also apparently a carriage return.  And
>> though it appears the same on the screen, I'm not sure it's the same
>> character...
>>
>> cocomongrel
>>
>>
> There is no right pointing arrow produced by the ROMs. There is a left
> pointing arrow <- which is what you drew in your question.
> SHIFT up-arrow will produce  <-  on the screen from Basic.
> The only other arrow is the up-arrow produced by the up-arrow key.
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>