Pat Naughtin in USMA 17386 quoted James Frysinger as writing on January 8:
(my software failed to deliver Jim's message to me):
>> In hilly or densly forested country, especially, it might be easier to
>> eyeball ares and then count them up, if one is visually estimating the
>> area of a patch of
I have a Sony laptop and Alt0128 means that I have to first lock the numerals, then
unlock them. Brrr! It works but it's a real hassle.
It seems that on my computer Windows ME has assigned Ctrl-Alt-E for the euro sign.
This works for me a lot better than the first option.
Adrian
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Steve:
First, Alt + a four-digit number is a standard PC procedure. It is (or
should be) taught in all PC courses and self-help books.
DOS used to accept Alt + 3 digits. Windows accepts Alt + either 3 digits
(ASCII value) or 4 digits (sometimes called the ANSI value, although not
strictly correc
This is just a mild complaint about how John and others described how to get
the euro sign from the keyboard!!
I would imagine there would have been some confusion from people (ok, me as
well) about what you meant by ALT - 0128!!
I assume this is the ASCII code for the number 4 on the keyboard
-Original Message-
From: Louis JOURDAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 13, 2002 02:36
Subject: [USMA:17415] Re: My letter to NG
>At 0:50 +0500 13/01/2002, Adrian Jadic wrote:
>
>NG is sold all over
One of my ex-colleagues who is a supporter of metric
said that the metric conversion of the 1970's was
handled in a bad way and that is why it failed.
We have to take some lessons from Euro exercise for
the next effort.
But my feeling is it should start from the smallest
1. Temperature
2. Mass
3
