Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!brianm From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this.... Message-ID: <779@viscous> Date: 18 Aug 88 16:26:13 GMT References: <8808162044.AA29370@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 26 In article <8808162044.AA29370@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: + +:In article <215@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM> ericb@mango.UUCP (Eric Black) writes: +:> '#' is "pound" [Stanford types sometimes use "hash", I'm an MIT type] +: +: We've always called it "sharp;" + + I always say HASH and I'm from Berkeley + +:> '~' is "squiggle" [some folks don't know whether "tilde" is '~' or '^'] +: +: Doesn't anyone else in the world call it a "twiddle?" Had a professor from germany (hi deitmar if you read this) who called it twiddle. as far as the '#' it is hash to me. But I'm from Santa Cruz. Oh, for people who don't know, if you change the '>' at the beginning of the line in a follow up message to something else, you don't need to add line filler. thanks -- -=-=-=-=-=-=- Brian Moffet brianm@sco.com {ucscc,uunet,decvax!microsof}!sco!brianm My opinions do not in any way reflect those of my employer or my fish. 'Evil Geniuses for a Better Tommorrow!'