Tilde troubles...

[SmallFry]

I cleaned up my G80-1800 and now my Tilde wont work. I haven't hit it with a meter yet, but didn't know if inlikeflynn/other 1800 enthusiasts would have any weird quirks that happen occasionally. The Tilde is the only key does not work.

[esoomenona]

Let's be honest. What are you going to use that key for?

[xDezor]

Let's be honest. What are you going to use that key for?

I use the ~ key once every round in Counter-Strike: Source to pop up the console window (So I can see the damage given/taken that round). I'm not sure what he uses it for, but it definitely has it's uses.

[samwisekoi]

Let's be honest. What are you going to use that key for?

Linux shortcut for "home".  Important key.

Can't imagine why one would use the grave key, however.

 - Ron | samwisekoi

[rowdy]

To execute commands at a Unix prompt as sub-processes e.g. echo `date` will run the date command and echo the output.

[samwisekoi]

To execute commands at a Unix prompt as sub-processes e.g. echo `date` will run the date command and echo the output.

Or right.  BASH.  Jeez; soggy brain today.

Thanks!

 - Ron | samwisekoi

[esoomenona]

You guys, I was joking... SF needs some help.

[SmallFry]

I think its fixed... I'll report if anything else goes wonky.

[salmo]

To execute commands at a Unix prompt as sub-processes e.g. echo `date` will run the date command and echo the output.

You can always use the (preferred since POSIX adopted the Korn shell-isms) $(date) vs `date`.  But it would also mess with m4 open-close `' style quoting. 

It's funny how characters that were not important to English typists were defined to become important (~, `, @, *, etc.) just because they were on the keyboard, so got used for something.

[TotalChaos]

To execute commands at a Unix prompt as sub-processes e.g. echo `date` will run the date command and echo the output.

AmigaDOS works the same way.