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Newbie question: @-symbol

8 replies · 2,517 views · Started 30 January 2005

What is the meaning of the @ symbol in the upper left corner of the outer display of the 9300er ?

nothing but when entering an email u use it 🙄

the bigger question is how do u input the | sign?>??

I think you misunderstood him.
There's a @-sign on the outer screen (where the keylock symbol, "G" and "W" etc. also are) in his case.
I have no clue what it stands for... Are you sure it's an @ sign, not something else?

I have the same @ symbol on my screen. I believe that it indicates an email. I inadvertantly created an email and tried to send it, this without being within a couple of continents of my home ISP. That's when the @ sign appeared on the phone screen.

I tried deleting the message from the outbox but it won't go away until I reconnect to my account, which I cannot do.

I am pretty sure that there is an entry in one of the sub-folders to the Mail program containing the entry but I can't see anything obvious.

This is a very minor matter but that tiny little symbol is a real irritant.

Rick Grant
Kabul

The @ sign indicates on the outer screen that there is / are unread mail(s). I always get the sign when I synchronise my Outlook Inbox.

Thanks for your helpful reply�s.
In the meanwhile i tracked the problem, too. The @ sign signals that new unread mail�s are in one mail-account (or in one subfolder).

Ismail wrote:nothing but when entering an email u use it 🙄

the bigger question is how do u input the | sign?>??


If you are asking about entering the | pipe symbol, it is under the extra characters under symbols. Brought up by pressing Chr, bottom left of keyboard.

Steveap wrote:If you are asking about entering the | pipe symbol, it is under the extra characters under symbols. Brought up by pressing Chr, bottom left of keyboard.

AFAIK the |-symbol that you get from pressing the Chr key isn't the same as the Unix-pipe - symbol. Read the PuTTY manual and it tells you they're different and thus there's a special menu-item for that character. Haven't tried, mileage may vary...

TheJoker wrote:AFAIK the |-symbol that you get from pressing the Chr key isn't the same as the Unix-pipe - symbol. Read the PuTTY manual and it tells you they're different and thus there's a special menu-item for that character. Haven't tried, mileage may vary...

Try Ctrl+124