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On Fri, 24 Oct 97 10:11:02 HST, David Ross wrote: >Hi, > >An English friend is in the US for a couple of weeks, and he's thinking of >buying a TP560 while he's here (since the current US price is ridiculously >low right now). He has two questions, which I couldn't answer for him: > >(1) Will he have service problems when he returns to the UK? (My impression > was that all he has to do is somehow reregister the machine...?) IBM now has help centers in RTP, North Carolina, Toronto, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. He might be able to get support from Dublin. > >(2) How does he get the pound sign? (I assume that the Windows95 British English > setting will reassign some character to the pound - but, if it is the US dollar > sign, what happens to programs like TeX which use this symbol?) > I think it is one of the ASCII characters. I forgot if UNIX/Linux supports it, but in OS/2, DOS/95, NT, you press ALT and the 3 digit number on the Num Pad. QBASIC will usually list which number that character is. Paul