how to print dollar symbol by using dos

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Posted 16-Nov-11 2:27am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Nov-11 19:19pm

Language? Application? Any relevant information at all? What's "Commands"?
--SA

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2011-11-16T02:51:00

Solution 2

Without knowing your problem it is impossible to suggest more than:

echo $

Posted 16-Nov-11 2:51am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Nov-11 19:23pm

It works! A 5!
Probably OP's (baseless) concern was encoding or perceiving '$' as as "special character" (a lot of software caused a lot of misconceptions about this strange notion). Please see my solution.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2011-11-16T13:18:00

Solution 3

The dollar character '$' is a part of ASCII code; and all more modern encodings include ASCII as a subset, so it is printed the same way in all systems and all "locales". DOS or not DOS — does not matter.

(However, there were some codes not compatible with ASCII, such as EBCDIC. Hopefully, they are not used anymore, at least not on PCs where DOS can run.)

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC[^].

—SA

Posted 16-Nov-11 13:18pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Richard MacCutchan 17-Nov-11 4:34am

5 for the information, but I still have no idea what OP's problem is.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Nov-11 11:27am

I guess the problem was to output dollar sign somewhere, probably imaginary one. :-)
Thank you, Richard.
--SA

Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Answer 3 · 2011-11-16T02:37:00

Solution 1

Unless you are doing this on Windows 98 or earlier, I'll have to disappoint you. Any windows version after Windows 98 has nothing to do with DOS.

Read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows#Windows_95.2C_98.2C_and_Me[^]

Cheers!

—MRB

Posted 16-Nov-11 2:37am

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

Updated 16-Nov-11 2:40am

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