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Quote:Excuse the double post.
I looked at the original code for the instruction
E.LAND$=E$+"&l1O"
and the character after the ampersand is a lowercase "L". On the line above it looks like a bar.
What's worse is that in the program posted above using [code],
bote the lowercase "L" and the "1" look exactly the same.
ORACLE: can you shed any light on this?
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This may be to do with the fact that this site specifies the ISO-8859-1 character set, and you've pasted in something different. In any event, if you copy the text from this page to an editor, it sorts itself out.
Or it may just be the font. The smaller the font is, the closer some letters get to one another.
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I can make out the difference between 1 and l on this monitor. I am using 1024x768 res. May be you have a higher resolution.
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Oracle and BBQ: Thanks for information. BTW, I'm also using 1024 resolution. From a programmer's standpoint I think this is yet another annoying thing about the Windows environment --- far too many character sets and fonts. When you're in MSDOS and display a file with a text editor, you hardly ever have the problem of interpreting one character for another.
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lol its not that windows has too many character sets or fonts =P, oracle has to just change the font to another more easily readable font like 'system' in Windows. It's the default font of notepad and is very good.
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* rants about the whole-grain goodness of monospaced fonts as part of a complete breakfast *
Courier New is pretty nice
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You're right, DrV, Courier New is nice, and especially pleasing to us oldtime, text-based programmers.
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