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From: wen@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (A. Wen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
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Date: 16 Aug 88 19:02:49 GMT
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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 suspect that "pound" is a by-product
	of the fact that the British pound sign is often on the same key

>	'~' is "squiggle" [some folks don't know whether "tilde" is '~' or '^']

	Doesn't anyone else in the world call it a "twiddle?"

	A. Wen
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