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Steve wrote: 19 May 2023 16:19 Tone, you should get one of these and plug it into your Atari!

russellnash wrote: 19 May 2023 07:52 At that price you might want to consider making a short trip abroad for a dentist; quicker, better service and much cheaper. They usually speak better English than the ones in the UK also.

rubber_jonnie wrote: 19 May 2023 10:36 £1200 seems a bit expensive to me, have you looked here at what charge bands there are for NHS dental treatment and what they cover:

NHS Dental charge bands

I know somebody who had a dental implant privately and it was about £2000, so that £1200 seems more like private than NHS.

PeckPeekPoke wrote: 19 May 2023 02:09

Cosmic Puppet wrote: 17 May 2023 20:32
Got tooth trouble so may disappear for a short while. Hoping it isn't too bad when the numbing wears off.

I hope your tooth is feeling better! Here's an old home remedy that may provide temporary relief: place a clove next to the tooth and leave it there. Of course you wouldn't want to fall asleep that way, lest you accidentally swallow, and I hope you find a good, affordable dentist you trust.

Beneath your Escape key, what is the purpose for the symbol that looks like a sideways "L", or a Tetris tile?

Cosmic Puppet wrote: 19 May 2023 23:24
Yeah, it was a private dentist as I don't have an NHS one.

Few more numbers to ring on Monday. Incidentally the one in the next town to me has a 12 month waiting list. I'll put myself on it when I get this sorted.

If I can't get anywhere closer by Monday, I'm going to Oxford on Tuesday as I can definitely register there but it has to be in person with ID. A few trips to Oxford is waaay cheaper than £1200 or having to lose a tooth I don't need to. I'll make it a day out as it has some crazy hill there.

rubber_jonnie wrote: 20 May 2023 09:24

Cosmic Puppet wrote: 19 May 2023 23:24
Yeah, it was a private dentist as I don't have an NHS one.

Few more numbers to ring on Monday. Incidentally the one in the next town to me has a 12 month waiting list. I'll put myself on it when I get this sorted.

If I can't get anywhere closer by Monday, I'm going to Oxford on Tuesday as I can definitely register there but it has to be in person with ID. A few trips to Oxford is waaay cheaper than £1200 or having to lose a tooth I don't need to. I'll make it a day out as it has some crazy hill there.

Good luck getting it sorted, definitely no fun having a bad tooth.

I had what I thought was a toothache recently, and the whole side of my head was in pain, but it turned out to be a blocked ear.

stephen_usher wrote: 17 May 2023 21:25 Back-quote is used quite a lot in UNIX/Linux shell. The stuff typed between the back-quotes (or "back-ticks") is run as a separate command and the output from it replaces the quoted text. e.g.

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$ myvar=`du -s .`

This runs the "disc usage" command on the current directory and the output gets assigned to the "myvar" shell variable which can then be used later.

stephen_usher wrote: 21 May 2023 18:48 Typographically Libreoffice is doing the right thing. After all it is a word processor rather than a text editor.

Something such as Notepad++, or just plain notepad in text mode would probably be better for what you want to do.