> It's actually ASCII 162, at least in the ISO-8955 Latin-1 Character set
> (don't quote me on that ISO number). I'm not even sure you can insert a
> char via its numeric representation under vim (although I'd be happy to
> stand corrected). You can quote the next char, but that's not quite the
> same thing (unless the ALT-nnn MS-DOS trick works under Linux too).
> 
> >Thanks for any and all help.
> 
> At the worst, you could
> 
>       $ perl -e 'print chr(162)' >~/cent.ch
> 
> and then open up your file in vim, read in this file, and then cut it to
> a named buffer, something like:
> 
>       :r~/.cent.ch
>       "cd   (um, double quote cee dee space)
> 
> And then when you need to insert it use "cp

Great!  If anyone has a easier way, I'm all for it, but this works, and that
will help alot!!

Thanks!

-Michael
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
 safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759


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