[Novalug] Fill in the blanks?

Jon LaBadie novalugml at jgcomp.com
Sun Mar 18 16:07:18 EDT 2012


On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 07:55:31AM -0400, Michael Henry wrote:
> On 03/17/2012 10:33 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 07:29:56AM -0400, Michael Henry wrote:
> >> On 03/16/2012 05:18 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> >>
> >>> Quick tutorial on Parameter Selection: consider that # means left and %
> >>> means right (mnemonic: relative to the $ sign).
> >>
> >> Excellent memory device. I wish I'd heard that long ago :-)
> >
> > For those unclear as to "relative to the $ sign", Jim is refering
> > to their sequence in the ASCII table.
> 
> I'd assumed he meant position on the keyboard, since the keys
> are in the order '#', '$', '%'.
> 

Ahh, mucho better.  I was wondering why Jim might expect
today's users to be familiar with the ASCII chart.  :)

jl
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