On 2009-09-04, Winston wrote:
GeoLane at PTD dot NET wrote:
On 3 Sep 2009 03:33:40 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

[ ... ]

Are you sure that is not an Omega with part of the printing missing?

That was a good thought. I ran upstairs and looked in the printed
manual. There it is printed as the ohm sign, so it is 10,000 ohms.
When I made my previous post, I had been looking in the manual that I
had downloaded as a pdf file and that's where the omega appears as the
"?". I tried using copy and paste from the windows character map to
paste an ohm symbol into this reply, and it came out as a question
mark rather than an omega, so on an electronic file, the omega is
being misinterpreted by the computer as a question mark.

Does ALT234 (?)work?

Well ... it shows up as a '?' here, which means that it is using
the section of the extended ASCII characterset with represents control
characters with the parity bit set instead of clear. Sun refuses to
display these -- at least with the ISO-8859-15 characterset which I use.
Perhaps it is characterset dependent. And assuming that the 234 in
ALT234 is an octal number, it does land in the parity-bit-set control
character range (0x9c, with 0x80 through 0x9f being the extended control
characters.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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