Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!ece-csc!ncrcae!ncr-sd!crash!ford From: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: New Amiga 500/2000 Workbench / keymaps Message-ID: <1409@crash.CTS.COM> Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 07:18:10 EDT Article-I.D.: crash.1409 Posted: Sun Jul 19 07:18:10 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 20:41:30 EDT References: <13160@topaz.rutgers.edu> <122@ers.UUCP> Reply-To: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto) Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA Lines: 25 Keywords: A500 A2000 Workbench 33.56 Summary: ch == Swiss In article <122@ers.UUCP> neil@ers.UUCP (neil) writes: >In article <13160@topaz.rutgers.edu>, lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) writes: >> >> :devs/Keymaps/ch1 >> >> Very unlikely this is Chinese; may be Swiss or Czech. >> >Almost certainly swiss since the international auto sign for Switzerland >is CH, short Cantonica Helvetica, scuse my latin roots. It is Swiss; says so in the Manual. >One of the really nice things about Commodore is its international >approach to things. Gee I wish IBM would adopt sensible date formats, >either universal yymmdd or ddmmyy or ddmonyy, but mmddyy is just plain >stupid, but I suppose it's kept for hysterical reasons. Beleive it or not, IBM PC-DOS & Ms.Dos have a "country code", and the standard commands (like "dir") look at it and display the date appropriately. Set it for England, for example, and you get (I think) dd-mm-yy. -- Michael "Ford" Ditto -=] Ford [=- P.O. Box 1721 ford@crash.CTS.COM Bonita, CA 92002 ford%oz@prep.mit.ai.edu