Re: SPLIT and ZipDir
Rather than post twice, there are two replies in here...
There is a genuine mistake in ZipDir, if anyone has downloaded it.
I've accidentally released a debug version. While it works fine, it
looks a bit ugly. I'd post a replacement *now*, but the systems here are
not up to scratch today, and PC-DISK to UNIX transfers aren't working.
Rats.
Meanwhile:
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Nate Brooman wrote:
> Offtopic
>
> Mistake! SPLIT and ZipDir v1.0ß is incorrect. ß is called a 'scharfes S' and
> it's pronounced as 2 Ss.
>
> Straße is pronounced strassah in German.
This I know, my home town (Bradford, England) is twinned with Hamm in
Germany. We have a road on the outskirts of town called "Hamm Strasse".
Incidentally, until now I always assumed 'ß' was pronounced "dopple-ess".
(As well as "beta" in Greek :) )
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl R. White <C.R.White at SCM.BRAD.AC.UK>
>
> <cheese><salesman>
> SPLIT v0.10ßs and ZipDir v0.10ßs are out today!
True, but if you look at the surrounding characters in a DOS character
you'll find alpha and gamma to either side.
All I've done is found the closest representative character in iso-8859-1.
Incidentally, I'm not alone in using possibly-wrong chracters. Windows'
WRITE.EXE uses the International currency symbol '¤' as an
end-of-onscreen-document marker... :)
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