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    Re: Exercise #16 High Altitude Sights near Noon
    From: Hewitt Schlereth
    Date: 2008 Jul 21, 11:03 -0400

    Richard -
    
    Well, you and Jim got me motivated to solve this one and you are
    correct at-shift-8 gives me this � which looks mighty like a degree
    sign. So simple when you know how. Obviously, I'm not a power-user.
    :-)
    
    Hewitt
    
    On 7/21/08, Richard B. Langley  wrote:
    >
    >  On a Mac, option(alt)-shift-8 typically gets the degree sign: "�" but it
    >  might depend on the application you are using as to whether it registers or
    >  not.
    >  -- Richard Langley
    >
    >
    >  On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Hewitt Schlereth wrote:
    >
    >  >
    >  >Hey, thanks, I tried it but got ?�?. I have a Mac iBook, which
    >  >probably has a way to do it, but I haven't discovered it; can't say
    >  >I've tried very hard, though. My LCII had some combination of keys,
    >  >then the * to get the degree symbol. But I've forgotten even that.
    >  >
    >  >Thanks kindly, Hewitt
    >  >
    >  >On 7/20/08, James N Wilson  wrote:
    >  >>
    >  >>  Hewitt:
    >  >>
    >  >>  A tip: the degree symbol can be inserted as Alt-248. That results in a �.
    >  >>  Better than a *. Other ASCII symbols can be similarly created.
    >  >>
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